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Budget benefits for rural communities
Budget 2017 will bring significant benefits to rural communities in Clare with substantial funding directed at creating jobs and attracting investment to areas outside the major urban centres. That’s the view of Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey who said he welcomed the budget’s concentration on rural and regional development which, he said, would bring […]
Stockholm flights to boost Clare tourism
Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey has received confirmation that SAS (Scandinavian Airlines) will operate a new twice weekly service from Stockholm to Shannon from August until October next year. Deputy Carey said that the latest expansion of the Shannon route network was a further endorsement of his successful campaign to secure the airport’s independence […]
Live register fall shows more Clare people are back at work
Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey has welcomed a fall of more than 14 per cent in the county’s live register as a positive indication that the Government’s job creation strategies are getting more Clare people back to work. “The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that the Live Register in Clare […]
Funding for Feakle houses is welcome news
Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey has welcomed the approval of a provisional budget allocation of almost €2.5 million for the construction of ten local authority houses in Feakle. Deputy Carey said that €2,452,805 would be made available to Clare County Council under the local authority housing construction programme and he expected that construction would […]
State salaries proposed for rural doctors
Offering state-paid salaries to family doctors if they move to rural areas could ensure that every community in Clare will have access to its own GP, according to Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey. “Health Minister Simon Harris has stated that he will make the offer when talks on new GP contracts begin in November. […]
M18 due for completion in eighteen months
Travel time between Ennis and Galway will be significantly reduced within the next eighteen months when the motorway from Gort to Tuam is scheduled to be open for traffic. That’s according to Clare Fine Gael TD Joe Carey who has been told by Transport Minister Shane Ross that, under the terms of the public/private partnership […]