Category Archives: Social & Economic

Sallins Business Association Launched

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I was delighted to host the first meeting of the Sallins Business Association which took place on Monday 6th January. This is something I had organised over the past few months for which the main focus of the association to simply make Sallins a better place to do business.

The meeting was well attended with over 30 local retailers and business owners. A special thanks to Tara Lane from the Kilcock Business Association who offered some advice on the night about their experiences setting up a similar group. I have seen the idea work elsewhere and with the number of businesses now trading in Sallins I felt it was definitely worth a go here too.

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Progress Update on Sallins Bypass

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There is welcome progress on the Sallins bypass and M7 interchange as it has been confirmed that the next stage of the project is about to commence. The project went to public consultation last May and is now advancing to the next stage of detailed design works.

This is a very important project for Sallins village and also for the infrastructure of the wider area. The village will benefit greatly from having through traffic routed around it and it will also allow other projects to proceed which are currently on hold, pending the bypass. The final route was confirmed last May and we now know that it will not go through any of the residential estates as had been considered in the very early drafts.

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Castlefen Responds to Halloween Incident

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Castlefen Residents have responded to Halloween night’s disturbance saying while they unreservedly condemn the incident, that is not representative and that a lot of work is being done in the estate with and by the residents to improve facilities for all.
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Alternative Ignored by Minister Rabbitte in Telephone Allowance Cut

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Ignoring panic calls system but cutting telephone allowance not acceptable.

I was less than impressed at Minister Rabbitte for his disregard towards the elderly and disabled in light of axing their telephone allowance. It’s also especially disgraceful of the Minister for a failure to utilise standard telecoms technology which would allow emergency panic calls across all rural areas and might help alleviate concerns at much lower cost.

This regressive approach by the Minister for Communications towards elderly people and the disabled leaves them in probable danger and perhaps helpless as a consequence.

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Naas Convention Speech

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This is a copy of the speech I gave at the Naas Fianna Fáil convention held at Townhouse Hotel, Naas on 2nd October 2013.

Chair, Cllrs., most importantly party members, today is a very proud day for me and my family. It is an honour to have been selected here tonight as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the 2014 local elections.

Thank you for your support and special thanks my own Sallins cumann, the Kill cumann, and also all the individual members who nominated me from different parts of the Naas area.

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