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Years of simmering discontent about how central government funds the city council reached boiling point this week, when councillors roasted Galway’s TDs and senators for failing to champion the regional capital’s local authority.

The Minister for Finance, Simon Harris, and the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, Jack Chambers, presented the second Budget of the coalition Government on Tuesday.

Retailers and staff in Galway have joined a national campaign calling on Government to cut employers’ PRSI in Budget 2027 in order to save retail jobs, as Retail Excellence Ireland (REI), the largest representative body for the retail industry in Ireland, launched its ‘Cut PRSI, Keep Jobs’ campaign at locations across the country.

And now Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell has used similar slurs against property speculators, sitting on buildings that can be lived in during a housing crisis, likening them to hoarding food during a famine.

The Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Jack Chambers, presented the first Budget of the coalition Government on Tuesday October 7.

Fianna Fáil General Election candidate for Galway West, Gráinne Seoige, has responded to recent criticism on her campaign to improve cancer treatment facilities in Galway, dismissing claims that she has ‘no regard’ for the cancer teams based in the west.

VAT was reduced from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent from 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. It was restored in 2023. The independent deputy has warned that not returning VAT back to 9 per cent will threaten hundreds of jobs across Galway.

The Minister for Finance, Jack Chambers, and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Paschal Donohoe, presented the fifth Budget of the coalition Government on Tuesday.

At a meeting of representatives from the Seafood Ireland alliance in Brussels on Tuesday, Maria Walsh, MEP for Midlands-North-West called for a new Minister of State to focus on fisheries. Fine Gael MEP Walsh expressed her view that the current situation “is not working” and the fishing industry is facing a “slow and painful death”.

Charging hotel guests across the city a one Euro per night tourism tax could net an estimated extra €2 million per year for the city’s finances.