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Ibec recently hosted an event with Minister of State Jack Chambers to discuss potential skills shortages within Ireland’s supply chain network, as part of the Government’s ‘Logistics and Supply Chain Skills Week 2024.’

Ibec this week hosted an event with Minister of State Jack Chambers to discuss potential skills shortages within Ireland’s supply chain network, as part of the Government’s ‘Logistics and Supply Chain Skills Week 2024.’ The event highlighted the role that diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives could play in expanding the talent and skills pipeline.

Galway-based MedTech company Versono Medical has opened its newly-expanded laboratories and offices over two floors at its current facility in Parkmore Business Park. The company, founded in 2018 by CEO Finbar Dolan and CTO Hugh O’Donoghue, has grown from just two people to 22 since it opened.

Local TD and Minister of State at the Department of Transport Hildegarde Naughton has confirmed that €107 million is being allocated for two local educational projects in Galway. Minister Naughton was speaking after receiving confirmation from her colleague, the Minister for Further & Higher Education, Simon Harris TD, who is in Galway today to mark these announcements.

BY DECLAN VARLEY

Local Fianna Fáil Minister for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Deputy Robert Troy, has welcomed an update from Minister of State Jack Chambers that the work of the Commission on Defence Forces pay and conditions is nearing conclusion with a report expected to be issued in the coming weeks.

The Marine Institute has been given the green light to proceed with the development of a renewable energy test site in Galway Bay, with the granting this week of a 35-year foreshore lease for the 37-hectare site off An Spideál.

A dedicated "professional project manager" is urgently required to tackle Parkmore's traffic chaos and push through the bus and cycle lanes, park and ride facilities, and integrated transport solutions the area needs.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael/Labour governments are known quantities. The civil service really runs the State, using elected politicians as spokesmen - and it is usually men - and change comes at a snail’s pace. As soon as one of the parties get too big for its boots, we switch to the other, and the cycle continues.