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Kilkenny Fine Gael senator John Paul Phelan has said that he was extremely taken aback at his party leader, Enda Kenny’s, shock statement that he would abolish the Seanad if Fine Gael got into government.

Some 3,324 people in Galway are awaiting claims for Jobseeker’s Allowance and Benefit, with 58,282 claimants across the country.

A 21-week wait for social welfare payments in Castlepollard is “an outrage and a scandal,” according to Westmeath Senator Nicky McFadden.

Niall Ó Brolcháin’s political career has been dramatically resurrected following his appointment to Seanad Éireann, but it has come in for stinging criticism from Fianna Fáil councillor Ollie Crowe, who said it was “a betrayal of the electorate”.

Speaking on the second stage of the Defence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009 in the Seanad this week, Fine Gael Longford/ Westmeath Senator, Nicky McFadden, said any cut to the Defence Forces’ budget, which allows troops to be adequately trained and facilitates them with the most up-to-date equipment, must be avoided at all costs.

Two of Westmeath’s highest profile women - Deputy Mary O’Rourke (Athlone) and Patricia Callan (Mullingar) - are amongst those profiled in Ellen Gunning's new book Capital Women of Influence.

The four Family Resource Centres based in Westmeath and Longford have welcomed the high level of political and public support they have received for the campaign to prevent their closure in the forthcoming budget. However, they have said that – ultimately – the countdown to December 9 will be critical in determining the future of Family Resource Centres around the country, and they have called for continued support for their campaign over the coming weeks.

Local Fine Gael senator Fidelma Healy Eames has questioned why the Galway Fire Service, the only local emergency organisation “equipped to suck up and remove water”, was not fully engaged to deal with the recent flooding in east and south Galway.

Speaking about her involvement in RTÉ’s health and lifestyle programme, Operation Transformation, Fine Gael’s Senator Nicky McFadden said the show presents her with an opportunity, not only to turn her unhealthy lifestyle around, but also to highlight the dangers such a way of life, if left unchecked, may pose.

One family will spend Christmas Day enjoying the food and entertainment at The Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill as a result of a joint initiative between the hotel and Senator Fidelma Healy Eames.