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Keaveney lobbies Manseragh
16.11.09
SENATOR Cecilia
Keaveney is lobbying the OPW for funding to progress
a number of promised projects in Inishowen next
year. She made her call when she met OPW Minister
Martin Manseragh at the Ógra Fianna Fáil conference
in Bundoran at the weekend and congratulated him on
the success of Buncrana's newly decentralised
Government buildings.
"I was able to compliment Minister Manseragh on the
wonderful success of the project in Buncrana but
also to drive further projects such as the Garda
Station for Carndonagh," said Senator Keaveney.
"He has agreed that we should meet after the
publication of the OPW estimates so that he will be
in a better position to determine what funding will
be available for projects in 2010. I intend to
continue to pursue this issue as vigorously as I did
the massive €27 million project just completed in
Buncrana," she said. |
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Meanwhile, she said
Buncrana had undergone a "significant
transformation" in a relatively short period of
time.
"I remember being there with Minister Batt O Keeffe
when it was merely a site that we wanted the OPW to
purchase and I had the Taoiseach here in 2007 to
turn the first sods on the Garda Station.
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many, now we have a
full complement of buildings but also staff to
occupy them. It is truly gratifying to see the
grandeur of the premises and how they add physically
to the town. "I am convinced it will, in time, add
to the stature of Buncrana's drawing power for other
opportunities. It is important that we continue to
talk up those opportunities and the great peninsula
and county in which we live." |
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