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Senator Lorraine Higgins is inviting women to join her in celebrating International Women’s Day 2015 from 12pm to 2pm in the Harbour Hotel, Galway city on Saturday March 7 twith other local women to mark their achievements in their chosen field.

Senator Lorraine Higgins has called for the local section of the Dublin to Galway greenway route to be altered from the current plan which proposes to go through vast tracts of farmland in East Galway.

Youth unemployment in Galway can be reduced, but only if employers start to engage with two new schemes aimed at helping young job seekers.

The Galway County Council and the Data Protection Commissioner are to launch investigations in to what is being described as “a very serious incident” where a large number of confidential documents from the Department of Agriculture were found dumped outside Tuam. The rubbish was discovered strewn along a large portion of the Athenry Road near Ballyglunin.

Labour senator Lorraine Higgins is proposing that road safety concerns in Kinvara could be remedied by the introduction of a boardwalk for pedestrians from the town to Dunguaire Castle.

Not only is the Government building a “small number” of houses over six years to deal with the current crisis, but it is determined to “copper-fasten” insecurity of tenure as an integral part of its housing policy.

Penalty point appeals must be removed from An Garda Síochána and be decided upon by district judges instead.

Labour Senator Lorraine Higgins has welcomed news that approximately 31,344 families in Galway are set to benefit from an increase in child benefit being introduced in the Dáil this week.

Senator Lorraine Higgins has called on the Minister for Finance to come into the Seanad to debate transparency of prices being achieved for proprety sold by NAMA.