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Investment in infrastructure is good for the Western Region – O’Mahony

“Ongoing Government investment in infrastructure is good for the development of the Western Region, a Fine Gael Senator has said. Speaking in a Seanad debate with Transport Minister Shane Ross this week, Mayo Senator John O’Mahony highlighted a number of projects benefitting the west and also urged that Government investment in the region should continue.

MINISTER MITCHELL O’CONNOR ANNOUNCES FURTHER €6.8M FUNDING ALLOCATION TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT

Following on from the announcement made on 17 July at an event held at the Grangegorman campus of Dublin Institute of Technology in the presence of An Taoiseach, of a significant 2018 funding allocation of €4.4 million to the three Dublin based Institutes of Technology – Dublin Institute of Technology, Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown and Institute of Technology, Tallaght – who are seeking designation as the State’s first technological university, the Minister of State for Higher Education, Mary Mitchell O’Connor T.D., today (21 September 2018) announced the allocation of a further €6.8 million in funding in support of the ongoing restructuring of the higher education landscape this year.

Richmond hosts Brexit fact finding mission

Fine Gael Senator and spokesman on European Affairs, Neale Richmond, will host a two day fact finding mission of visiting MPs and academics from the continent, beginning tomorrow (Monday).