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Citizens may have the opportunity to elect the mayor of the city in 2024 after city councillors backed a motion calling on the Minister for Local Government Darragh O'Brien to hold a plebiscite vote for a directly elected mayor with executive functions on Monday evening.

“No child or family chooses to live in poverty, that choice is made for them. The State has allowed more and more children, decade after decade, to fall into poverty."

Galway city’s local property tax (LPT) rate will remain the same for next year after councillors voted to reject a 15 per cent and 10 per cent increase at the local authority’s ordinary meeting at Leisureland on Monday afternoon.

Fianna Fáil councillor Alan Cheevers has said the Galway City Council needs to publish a yearly transparency report on how local property tax is being spent in communities.

Teach Solais, the only LGBT+ resource of its kind in the west of Ireland, has closed its doors with immediate effect.

Vital work which needs to be carried out in Galway city, and community support and grants will be, "put on the back burner" so long as there is no "clarity on the financial future and stability" of the Galway City Council.

More than 300 people have had to go onto Rent Supplement in Galway since March, when the Covid-19 lockdown came into effect - one of the highest rates in the entire State.

The creation of a new neighbourhood located along the Sandy Road has moved onto the next stage as the Galway City Council agreed to release the design proposals for public consultation.

Hildegarde Naughton

Community funding, grants, and investment must be prioritised and protected "as we build a resilient society and economy after Covid-19", especially as the crisis has put the greatest pressure "on our most vulnerable".