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Social housing rents must be reviewed in the light of the current “cost of living crisis”, especially as the Galway City Council has the power to do this.

Cancer patients should be focused on just one thing – getting better, but the inpatient costs, which can rise to €800 a year, are not doing anything to help that and must be scrapped.

Galway city will need 4,433 houses by 2028, and of these 1,575 will need to be social housing and 903 will have to be affordable housing, if the city is to seriously tackle the growing local authority waiting list.

Traffic congestion in Galway “will get worse before it gets better”, which is why “significant investment” in public transport is vital to combat the personal, environmental, and economic toll gridlock is taking on the city.

Dangerous roads, inaccessible estates, and general under-investment have created major problems in the Headford Road area, which must be urgently addressed.

A lack of commitment to invest in public transport is undermining Galway’s reputation as a “sustainable, attractive place to live”.

“A gift to land hoarders” is how the Government's new vacant zoned land tax, announced as part of Budget 2022, has been described by a Galway city councillor.

The Salthill Cycleway pilot scheme is “a victory for everyone in the city”, but it has to be made work, and become the start of a new approach to transport in the city, one that will reduce, not increase, the city’s already chronic traffic congestion.

Galway Community Pride is inviting the public to iits AGM, which takes place tomorrow, Friday September 30, at 7pm in Conradh na Gaeilge, Dominick Street.

The outdoor dining and pedestrianisation measures in Galway city should not come to an end on September 30, but instead should be extended to Christmas.