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The substantial document has been in gestation for almost one year, and will be circulated to local councillors, TDs and senators before a high stakes meeting scheduled next week.

If Galway improves its status to a Tier 4 city, its funding from central government could increase by up to €8.52m per year. Over the lifetime of a 5-year council, this adds up to a hefty €42.6 million – roughly 20 per cent more than Galway City Council currently receives from central government.

Fianna Fáil Senator for Roscommon/Galway, Eugene Murphy, has welcomed the significant allocations and targets under the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme for Social Housing.

Responding to the announcement of a review of the local property tax, Sinn Féin Mayo senator and finance committee member Rose Conway Walsh criticised the failure of the tax to deliver any real improvements to services in Mayo and rural Ireland.

An extra €80 million of taxpayers’ money will go towards subvention of the highly controversial, and much mistrusted, body Irish Water from next year, a Freedom of Information request from a Galway county councillor has revealed.