28 12, 2021

Construction costs will impact on delivery of Public Works Contracts

By | December 28th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

As a former lecturer in Construction Economics and Quantity Surveying in GMIT I have expressed the view that rising costs in materials and labour will impact on what can be delivered under the National Development [...]

27 12, 2021

Urging people to check their passports prior to booking flights

By | December 27th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News, National, Tourism, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I urge people to check their passports prior to booking flights. The time to process a passport application can vary. It is very important to know the time it takes to process a passport and [...]

24 12, 2021

I welcome the major reforms to the Community Employment (CE) and Rural Social Schemes (RSS)

By | December 24th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I welcome the major reforms to the Community Employment (CE) and Rural Social Schemes (RSS) after a long campaign which I initiated on behalf of participants in the schemes and Community groups. The main changes [...]

22 12, 2021

X-ray service for Tuam cannot be delayed and must be provided as a matter of urgency

By | December 22nd, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Health, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I have called on the HSE to get on with the installation of the X-ray facility at the Tuam Primary Medical Centre as a matter of urgency. “In November 2017 I secured €700,000 for the [...]

21 12, 2021

Calls on the Government to make work more financially beneficial

By | December 21st, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

The Government have a responsibility to ensure that workers are incentivised to return to the workforce. “People on Jobseekers need to have an increase in their take home pay if they are to be available [...]

20 12, 2021

Capital Gains Tax rate should be adjusted to ensure availability of development lands

By | December 20th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Housing, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I call on the Minister for Finance to revise downwards the rate of Capital Gains Tax on the sale of development land to ensure more land becomes available to deliver the housing this country needs. [...]

19 12, 2021

Regional TDs call for the immediate national implementation of a Vitamin D strategy

By | December 19th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Health, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I along with the Independent members of the Regional Group are calling on government to implement the recommendations of the Oireachtas Health Committee report from April this year addressing Vitamin D deficiency as a public [...]

18 12, 2021

Scheme to provide Sewerage Treatment Plants to unserved villages and settlement centres vital to delivery of housing

By | December 18th, 2021|Blog, Galway East, Homepage, Housing, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I believe that a scheme to provide Wastewater Treatment Plants is required as a matter of urgency in order to deliver housing and allow the regions to grow. “Villages like Craughwell, Corofin and Abbeyknockmoy are [...]

18 12, 2021

Restrictions on the harvesting of horticultural peat a fiasco

By | December 18th, 2021|Blog, Farming, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

Sean Canney Independent TD has stated that the restrictions imposed on the harvesting of horticultural peat is a fiasco with imports of the same material increasing on a weekly basis. It is typical of a [...]

15 12, 2021

Seamount College Kinvara deserve proper Sports Hall facility

By | December 15th, 2021|Blog, Education, Galway East, Homepage, Information, Kinvara Area, Latest News, Tuam Area|0 Comments

I have expressed concern that the Department of Education have refused to grant aid the construction of a Sports Hall at Seamount College Kinvara. In this era sport, exercise and wellbeing are all part of [...]