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Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan, and senior representatives of the Office of Public Works (OPW) have been called on to visit Galway as a matter of urgency and to meet with city councillors and officials to discuss concerns over the extensive damage caused by the recent storms and flooding.

Minister of State for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring has welcomed the announcement from the Minister of the Environment, Phil Hogan, to provide a grant scheme to provide financial assistance to households whose septic tanks and other domestic waste water treatment systems require remediation or upgrading following inspection under the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012.

After a wait of nearly 15 years it seems that work on a new sewerage scheme for Clifden will finally be a reality with work set to begin early next year.

Refurbishment works on one of Kilkenny city’s landmark sites — Talbot’s Tower on Ormonde Road, are well underway with a completion date for the restoration of the structure set for next year.

Plans to double the size of Athlone over the next 15 years were advanced this week (September 27) after councillors voted to accept the manager’s plan for 302Ha (750 acres) at Creggan on the eastern edge of the town.

The elected members of Mayo County Council accepted the draft Western River Basin District Management Plan and the Shannon International River Basin District Management plan this week, but with a number of reservations attached to the plans. Fine Gael whip Cllr Joe Mellet proposed the acceptance of the plans, but with the inclusion of the three reservations about the plan. The reservations included that nothing in these plans should supersede the County Development Plan, that they didn’t accept that 31 per cent of pollution in the rivers came from agriculture, and that the plan did nothing to supersede the current EU nitrates directive.

At the age of 25 Mary Harney became the youngest senator in the Seanad at the invitation of the then taoiseach Jack Lynch.

Westport Sinn Féin Town Councillor Dave Keating has called on the Minister for the Environment, John Gormley, to incorporate PPS numbers in the register of electors application process. Cllr Keating renewed his call after a Dáil report showed major discrepancies in the electoral register in Mayo.