With the clocks going back this weekend, signalling darker and colder days, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) is urging homeowners to get their homes winter ready. About two thirds of household energy bills is spent on heating, with most of that during the winter months. The SEAI has some advice to help homeowners […]
Day: 24 October 2019
Galway City Council had one of the highest rates of appealed planning decisions in the country last year, according to a new report from An Bord Pleanála. According to the Board’s Annual Report for 2018, there were 378 planning decisions made last year by the City Council. Of these, 42 were appealed (11.1%), which was […]
Offaly’s county councillors have once again challenged the rate at which vacant homes are turned around and provided to those on the social housing list in the county. The October meeting of Offaly County Council was told that 649 people remain on the social housing list with a further 849 availing of HAP in rented […]
The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D., today announced the commencement of the first payments to applicants under the 2019 Beef Environmental Efficiency Pilot (BEEP). The BEEP is a €20 million scheme being piloted in 2019 and has been followed up in Budget 2020 with a €40 million investment in a […]