Road Class Road Number Location Percentage Complete Comment Regional Roads Surface Dressing Local Roads Surface Dressing Community Involvement Schemes R R610 Fingerpost Roundabout 0% Preparing Design …
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Simon Coveney TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, welcomes the publication of the EU Commission’s proposals for the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy . The new proposals follow a lengthy consultation process where Ireland made a detailed submission in response to the Commission’s April 2009 Green…
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2010 National Litter Report shows 72% areas surveyed have high level of cleanliness Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, has announced the provision of €1 million to local authorities under the Anti-Litter & Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant Scheme, and a further €0.5 million to assist local…
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I am delighted to give details for the commencement of the project which when completed will certainly improve traffic flow and hopefully eliminate the delays particualrly at peak hours that we all have had to endure for many years. Wednesday 6th July 2011 has now been established as the contract…
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Recently I have been contacted by anxious parents of pupils who attend our local Church of Ireland School, St Lukes National School Douglas, Cork. Their concerns are in relation to possible withdrawal of the bus service which has served the Farmers Cross/Ballygarvan area for the past 40 years. It is…
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Cllr Deirdre Forde Encourages Local Young Entrepreneurs to Submit Ideas to Minister for Children and Youth Affairs to win research grant of €15,000 and week shadowing top Irish entrepreneur. Fine Gael Cllr. Deirdre Forde has urged local entrepreneurs between the ages of 15 and 22 to submit their ideas on job creation…
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The funding is under the Scheme to Support National Organisations in the Community and Voluntary Sector and will contribute an annual amount of approx. €4m to the Sector, subject to the annual budgetary process. Im particularly delighted with this funding to 63 national Community & Voluntary organisations. The work of…
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The good news is that new legislation to tackle white collare crime has been published and is due to be passed into law before the end of July. This will speed up both future and current investigations and prosecutions. The Leglislation is based on problems experiences with complex investigations and…
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The Government’s new Jobs Initiative, includes various measures geared towards stimulating economic growth and I set out a few points which readers may be interested in, since creating jobs is one of the most important tasks we must be successful in achieving. It will be funded by a temporary 0.6…
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Over the past few months people have been saying to me that they see all politicians as the same. Indeed they could be forgiven for think this is the case with whats gone on over the last 15 years. So I thought it would be helpful to set out below…
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on July 20, 2011
in Council Business, Media/Press Releases, Roadworks, Uncategorized