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Pay packets have shrunk further this week as Brian Lenihan’s latest round of tax cuts hit home, with the average family now paying €7,700 more tax compared to 12 months ago, Mayo Fine Gael TD John O'Mahony said.

Billions of euros worth of gas and oil lie off the west coast and around the Lough Allen basin, but Ireland is not exploiting these natural resources to its own advantage.

The Minister for Environment and Local Government John Gormley has come in for sharp criticism from Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny regarding payments to Mayo County Council for funding under the housing aid grants administered by local authorities. The situation is so dire at present that Mayo County Council does not have the financial resources to continue approving grants leaving many people without the necessary funding to carry out essential repairs to their homes.

The 2009 Higher Education Grants Scheme has just been announced by the Department of Education, and Westmeath County Council is currently sending out application forms and details to all those who requested same.

Roscommon Fire Services are to benefit from some €334,000 in funding towards the purchase of fire and emergency equipment.

Labour TD for Westmeath/Longford, Deputy Willie Penrose, has raised the issue of the Government’s decision to close the District Veterinary Office (DVO) in Mullingar with the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Brendan Smith.

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen has expressed positive assurance to Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn that the Government is fully aware of the importance of the N5. The Taoiseach told the Fianna Fáil deputy that he and the Minister for Transport would do everything possible to help maintain jobs and develop manufacturing opportunities in the west.

Fine Gael community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs spokesperson Michael Ring has described the new National Drugs Strategy as “worryingly vague”, adding that the crisis in the public finances means that the strategy has to be built on clear actions that can be delivered despite budgetary constraints.

Mayo TD Beverley Flynn says that to dismantle the family resource centres in Mayo would be to deprive the community of a valuable asset and a resource which could never be replaced.

In the presence of local councillors and media representatives, cathaoirleach of Westmeath County Council, Cllr Fintan Cooney, officially dedicated the J P Hayden Press Room in the newly refurbished county buildings, Mullingar on Monday this week.