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Minister Barry Andrews was in Mullingar last Friday to perform the official opening of Grovelands Childcare at Market Point.

Local Senator and Fine Gael’s spokesperson for Social and Family Affairs, Nicky McFadden, has condemned the Budget as targeting the most vulnerable in Irish society.

Local Senator Nicky McFadden has said that she is outraged at the delay in opening Mullingar’s Sexual Assault Treatment Unit, speaking after the news that the chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop did not know why the unit, along with the Galway unit, was not open.

The Sexual Assault Treatment Unit (SATU) for Mullingar is set to open this month, according to the HSE.

Urgent action is needed to help recently unemployed people in Westmeath, and throughout the country, find alternative employment, according to Fine Gael Longford/Westmeath Senator, Nicky McFadden who this week called on the Government to initiate an economic package to help people return to the workforce.

“No longer a second humiliation, a second invasion of privacy,” so said Fine Gael’s Olwyn Enright, spokesperson on Social and Family Affairs, on welcoming the opening of the Sexual Assault Treatment Unit in Mullingar Hospital this week.

There appears to be no accountability in the HSE for the disappearance of €11.2 million allocated for mental health services for children.

Youth unemployment will be high on the agenda at this month’s Young Fine Gael National Conference, to to take place in the Sheraton Hotel, Athlone from Friday February 20 to Sunday February 22.

Up to 90 workers at Athlone’s Elan plant are to lose their jobs in the coming weeks.

There was widespread shock this week at the news that 80 jobs are to be cut at the Dunbia meat factory in Kilbeggan.