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Newly qualified nurses and midwives have been left uncertain about their futures as the HSE withholds job contracts despite significant vacancies at University Hospital Galway and Government policy.

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.

Responding to positive comments from her colleague, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, local TD and Minister for Education, Hildegarde Naughton, has indicated that she will ensure that the Galway Ring Road be designated as critical infrastructure under the Critical Infrastructure Act in the coming months. Minister Chambers indicated at the weekend that he would expect the ring road to be included in the list of critical infrastructure projects.

The Green Party’s candidate for the Galway West by-election says the government’s Critical Infrastructure Bill reduces citizens’ rights to hold state bodies to account.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, James Lawless TD, alongside Minister of State with responsibility for Further Education, Apprenticeship, Construction and Climate Skills, Marian Harkin TD,this week announced a new and exciting Business and Operations apprenticeship for the public and private sectors.

Sinn Féin TD for Galway East, Louis O’Hara, has said that delays in the delivery of wastewater infrastructure is holding up the delivery of housing across Galway. In Mountbellew 60 homes which have planning permission cannot progress until the new system is in place there, while long-promised schemes in Craughwell and Clarinbridge are no closer to delivery.

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.

Galway-headquartered MKO, Ireland’s largest planning and environmental consultancy, has announced plans to create 75 new jobs over the next three years, bringing its workforce to over 300 people.

Wading in to the debate on a proposed ring road for Galway while visiting the city last week, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said the health and environmental benefits of new roads are often overlooked.

News of the initiative comes as expectation in senior government circles is growing that An Bord Pleanála will initiate a second oral hearing on environmental aspects of the planning permission for the N6 City Ring Road.