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Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton will be in Galway next Monday for a consultation with the local business community regarding support for the protection and creation of jobs — and Galway businesses have been invited to attend.

Radical reform is needed if businesses are to start creating job opportunities once more, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, stated this week.

New figures published this week by the CSO reveal that unemployment in the southeast, including Kilkenny, has now risen to 18.9 per cent, compared to the national average of 14.8 per cent.

Fine Gael Waterford TD John Deasy and Fine Gael Kilkenny TD John Paul Phelan held a meeting in Leinster House on Wednesday evening last for the party’s TDs and senators in the southeast, to discuss the unemployment crisis in the region with the Minister for Jobs and Enterprise Richard Bruton,

Longford/ Westmeath Fine Gael TD Nicky McFadden has welcomed Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton’s announcement that he is increasing the number of businesses exempt from the requirement to hire external auditors to the maximum level permitted under EU law.

Kilkenny-based Prochem Engineering was recognised as an InterTradeIreland Business Ambassador at a special event held with Minister Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation on Wednesday June 1 in Dublin.

“Honesty is not just our best policy, it is our only policy” — poignant words echoed by the new Taoiseach of the country, Enda Kenny, as he made his acceptance speech at the first session of the 31st Dáil.

Labour Affairs Minister and Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo, Dara Calleary, has said that Fine leader Enda Kenny is in no position to give lectures on economic policy given his own party cannot seem to agree on its own policies.

Westport based TD Michael Ring has become a beneficiary of the new front bench reshuffle by Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny after being promoted from spokesperson on community, rural, and Gaeltacht affairs to social protection where he will once again face off against his old adversary Éamon Ó Cuív. Ring was opposition spokesperson when Ó Cuív was Minister for Community, Rural, and Gaeltacht Affairs. The role of Minister for Social Protection was only created by Taoiseach Brian Cowen in his last cabinet reshuffle and takes over from the old Minster for Social and Family Affairs. Ring will have responsibility for creating Fine Gael policy to deal with a whole range of social insurance and entitlement issues such as unemployment benefits, illness and maternity entitlements, and old age pensions.