Funding has been introduced to provide once-off grants to city and county councils to help manage parks, walkways, graveyards, and publicly owned lands and buildings.
Galway has been allocated just under €200,000 to support programmes already operated by Galway’s two local authorities.
The funding has been welcomed by Fine Gael Galway West TD Seán Kyne, who said the money will “be particularly useful to Galway’s local authorities following the storms and adverse weather experienced in January and February