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The country is insolvent with a deficit of €20bn and national debt of in excess of €300bn. We must find massive savings in current spending leading to a reduction in the deficit and thus a reduction in borrowing. Increasing taxes will have some albeit a limited benefit as they generate diminishing return in line with the increases levied. So we must close the gap elsewhere.

Green Party TD for Carlow/Kilkenny Mary White has said the Green Party is to pursue an ambitious reform agenda in the next Dáil term.

An organisation representing county and city managers around Ireland has responded to government plans to cut back on local government costs by releasing its own report this week.

The Midlands Gateway Chamber has welcomed the publication of the report of the Local Government Efficiency Review Group, noting that if implemented quickly, many of the recommendations could deliver much needed savings to local authorities.

A national campaign is needed to pressurise the Government into getting developers and landlords, who lease their homes to city and council councils, to pay a second home levy.

Water service in the Gaybrook/Miltownpass area is set for improvements in the near future after it was revealed this week Westmeath County Council has applied to itself to build a 1,000 cu. m resevoir extension in the townland.

Councillors abilities to go off on junkets or make claims for conferences they may not have attended will be limited under new regulations.

It’s time to rip it up and start again, nothing else will do for the Ireland we currently find ourselves in. Politically, institutionally, and economically, staying wedded to our current ideologies is no longer an option. They have proven to be either failures or past their sell-by date.

The Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, has learned that local authorities can now introduce community wardens outside schools following the success of a pilot scheme. He had sought an update on the pilot scheme commitment as included in the Programme for Government.

Carlow Kilkenny’s youngest Oireachtas member Senator John Paul Phelan has hit out at the Government’s announcement that it is to scrap decentralisation plans for now.