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Fine Gael TD for Carlow/Kilkenny John Paul Phelan has welcomed legislation to tackle white collar crime which came into effect on Tuesday last.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

Fine Gael TD for Carlow-Kilkenny, John Paul Phelan, has received assurances that work is underway to clear the backlog of cases at the Social Welfare Appeals Office, which have increased by 130 over the last three years.

€125,000 has been allocated by central government for pedestrian and cycle links from Kilkenny city centre under the Smarter Travel Initiative — less than half of what had originally been sought by Kilkenny Local Authorities.

Three weeks ago Kilkenny County Council welcomed its newest member, 27-year-old Jane Galway, who replaces Pat O’Neill in the Thomastown electoral area.

Thousands of Kilkenny people are expected to make the trip down to neighbouring county Waterford over the next few days, for the Tall Ships Races festival, which takes place this weekend.

The Arts Council, the Government agency responsible for funding and developing the arts in Ireland, met with Dáil deputies and members of Seanad Éireann at the council's office in Dublin to brief them on the arts in Ireland, on the work of the Arts Council and the activities of local arts organisations in constituencies around the country.

St Beacons National School in Mullinavat is to get an extension following Government approval of finance for the works, Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan, has confirmed.

Kilkenny Fine Gael Councillor Pat O’ Neill has been elected to the Seanad.

US President, Barack Obama, has been formally invited to visit Callan where he is being encouraged to view various landmarks, chief among them the homestead of James Hoban, the architect who designed the White House.