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Canney welcomes supports in Budget for Agricultural and Rural communities
Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the increases in funding for rural Ireland. In particular that additional funding of €19 million for rural and community development is vital to enhance rural Ireland. The further increase in [...]
Canney welcomes increase in investment in Education in Budget
Deputy Seán Canney welcomes the increase in 1,300 additional teaching posts in schools in 2018. This will result in the pupil teacher ratio being reduced to 26 to 1 in Primary Schools. This is the [...]
Canney Welcomes €25 Million funding for new STEM Building at GMIT
Deputy Seán Canney TD has been informed that the Department of Education are to provide €25 million for a new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) building at the Galway Campus of GMIT. The building [...]
Canney welcomes €30 million additional funding for 2017 Sports Capital Grants
Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the announcement by Minister Shane Ross that the allocation of funding for the 2017 Sports Capital Programme is to be doubled from €30 to €60 million. ‘I have worked closely [...]
Canney welcomes doubling of funding for Greenways
Seán Canney T.D. has welcomed the announcement by Minister Shane Ross that he is to double the amount of funding for Greenways. This announcement is in recognition of the success of Greenways. A new development [...]
Irish Water Update on Storm Ophelia
Dear Deputies Irish Water working in partnership with the Local Authority has incident plans in place and crews on standby to deal with the effects of Storm Ophelia. Irish Water recognises that the predicted conditions [...]