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Mayo County Council is calling on vacant home property owners across Mayo to engage with house repair and leasing scheme

Independent Ballina councillor Mark Duffy has put forward the idea of retrofitting a school in the town that will no longer be used for that purpose come the end of the current academic year - for use as a temporary fix to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the war in their country.

Mayo County Councillors have hit out at the allocation of just €1,840,000 from the government under their Rebuilding Ireland Home Loan and Local Authority Home Loan Allocations for 2022.

Foxford based Fine Gael councillor Neil Cruise has issued a stark warning to councillors in all areas of the county that the effects of pyrite in homes, will be coming to their areas, if it has not affected them already.

Mayo County Council is issuing a renewed call for landowners, farmers and householders to ensure their roadside hedges and overhanging trees are cut and maintained so that motorists, cyclists and pedestrians can travel safely on roads. The 2021/22 hedge cutting season which started on September 1, 2021, will end on February 28.

The elected members of the Ballina Municipal District were informed this week that the district has no vacant council-owned housing stock at the minute.

A motion was put forward at the January meeting of Mayo County Council to have the sliding scale per square foot in the recently introduced defective concrete block scheme for pyrite effected homes, removed.

There is expected to be some good news on improving the N26 between Mount Falcon outside of Ballina and Foxford in the coming weeks.

Breaking up the improvement plan for the N26 from Ballina to Foxford into a number of small minor works projects is the only way that progress will be made on the road, was the message from the November meeting of the Ballina Municipal District this week.

A Fine Gael councillor has called on Mayo County Council to support the drive for a public enquiry into the Pyrite and Mica issues, that saw thousands of people from Mayo, Donegal and other parts of the country take to the streets in Dublin last Friday in their call for a 100 per cent redress scheme.