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Deputy Phil Hogan has called on the Department of Education to plan for the shortage of second level school places which will occur in Kilkenny city next year.

Politicians and the political system must take a major share of the pain in solving the current economic crisis, according to Deputy Phil Hogan.

In the largest campaign of its kind, the National Campaign for the Arts was marked in Kilkenny along with several other locations around the country last Friday.

Deputy Phil Hogan has declared that successive Fianna Fail Governments have been an economic disaster for Carlow/Kilkenny as the constituency’s unemployment rates jump to a record high.

Today Friday September 17, is National Day of Action for Arts and Culture and arts organisations in Kilkenny city and county will be taking part in a bid to highlight the importance of the arts to the local economy.

School budgets have been slashed by a whopping €2billion in the government’s Capital Expenditure Programme.

The €750 million cut in the water investment programme announced earlier this week by John Gormley and the Government could end up costing the taxpayer a fortune in fines and leakage according to Fine Gael Environment Spokesman, Phil Hogan.

Fine Gael Leader, Enda Kenny visited Carlow/Kilkenny last night in his first constituency visit following last week's leadership debacle.

Enda Kenny is due to announce his new front bench next week and Paddy Power are betting that it’s a two horse race to be deputy leader.

Kilkenny nurses are to take to the streets today (Friday) in a protest at bed closures and nurse ‘redeployments’ which are to occur at Kilkreene Orthapaedic Hospital this month and carry on until the end of December this year.