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The Asthma Society of Ireland has launched its Back2Work Checklist as part of its Life Alongside Covid-19 campaign.

The Small Firms Association has welcomed the July Stimulus Package with Director, Sven Spollen-Behrens saying: "The July stimulus measures will allow small businesses to access the working capital and investment funds they need. The lowering of the Standard VAT rate will benefit the economy and especially the retail and hospitality sector, which have been so hard hit.

The Health Insurance market remained relatively stable over the course of 2019, according to the Health Insurance Authority (HIA) Annual Report 2019 which was published in recent times.

The Galway County Council has voted to not attempt to operate its housing function in the functional area of the Galway City Council without a democratic agreement being reached between itself and councillors of the city council.

"A failure to fully understand and address the needs of those working in the Arts" is how a former Mayor of Galway has described the measures relating to artists and arts workers in the Government's July stimulus package.

Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh has called on all TDs in Mayo to back Sinn Féin’s drive to reform the childcare sector to be fairer for parents, staff and providers, by supporting the motion, published this week, compelling the Government to enact these long overdue reforms.

The new COVID-19 Credit Guarantee Scheme (CGS) will make low cost loans available to businesses in Westmeath impacted by the pandemic, according to Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael Minister of State for Local Government and Planning, Deputy Peter Burke.

Globalization Partners, which simplifies global business by enabling companies to hire and retain team members in 180+ countries without the complexity of setting up international branch offices or subsidiaries, last week announced plans to hire 25 technology positions immediately in Galway. These newly created positions include software engineers, technology leads, help centre support, DevOps engineers, UI/UX designers and many others to be located in the company’s Galway centre of operations.

Women's participation in the workforce remains low because of "Ireland’s unaffordable childcare costs", and it will go lower unless the State introduces a universal public childcare system.