Aidan Davitt
Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, Ireland

2.5           Cllr.Davitt:              To askWestmeath County Council to place new signage and look at widening the bridgeat Ballagh, Mullingar.

Reply:

New signs have been ordered for this location and will be erected as soonas they arrive. There is no funding to widen this bridge.

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5.3            Cllr.Davitt:               To call on Westmeath CountyCouncil to scrape the roadway and place gates at the rear entrance on the toprow of houses in Dalton Park, in order to stop dumping.

Reply:            

Westmeath CountyCouncil has carried out a clean up of service laneways in Dalton Pa...

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Agriculture, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, has criticised the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, for refusing to give replies to simple questions raised in the Dáil.

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Donegal Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill has challenged the Minister for Health James Reilly on his disgraceful cuts to home help hours.

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Cllr.Davitt: To ask the Council if it will address the road surface of the Curraghbrack Road, particularly as special development levies have been collected for this road.

Reply:

Mullingar Area Office will include this road L17214 in its Routine Maintenance Works

Programme.

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Cllr.Davitt: To ask Westmeath County Council if it will examine the steel cover for stopcock on the pedestrian crossing at Domini...

Cllr.Davitt: To call on Mullingar Town Council to write to the Department of Environment to consider changing the existing postal voting regime as due to forced immigration, all Irish nationals working abroad should be entitled to a vote in the next Election.

Reply:

A letter can issue to the Department of Environment in this regard, if the Members are in agreement.

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Cllr.Davitt: That Westmeath County Cou...

Recent Question/Motions at Mullingar Town Council 26/6/2012

4.12 Cllr.Davitt: To call on Westmeath County Council to place a screen or flicker on Mullingar Town Council’s building to publicise events happening in the area on any given week.

Reply:

The Market House is a protected structure and as such would require planning permission to place any structure on the building. It is unlikely that this would be forthcoming and there i...

Cllr.A.Davitt: To call on Westmeath County Council to outline what steps are to be taken to return normal water levels to the canal.

Reply:

The Royal Canal is operated by Waterways Ireland and the Council has no jurisdiction over its operation or maintenance.

When the Royal Canal was operating from the early 1800s to the late 1900s, Lough Owel was the main source of water for navigation. The Royal Canal Company and its ...