Fine Gael Senator Maura Hopkins, is reminding families that the Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance will be made available again this year, and urged families who are not automatically entitled to make an application before the August deadline. Senator Hopkins commented, “I am acutely aware of the high costs for families of children …
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Senator Maura Hopkins has welcomed the news that the 2016 Carer’s Support Grant is set to be paid this week and that it has been fully restored to it’s previous level of €1,700. This is an important grant which is paid automatically to carers who are already in receipt of schemes like the Carer’s Allowance, …
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Newly elected Senator Maura Hopkins has pledged that she will use her new platform to be a voice in national politics for young people from the West of Ireland. She also confirmed that she will provide ‘ambitious’ and ‘sincere’ representation at Oireachtas level for the 7,000 Roscommon-Galway voters who gave her their No.1 votes in …
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There will be a number of Roscommon natives and connections on the Ballot Papers for the upcoming Seanad Éireann Elections following the deadline for Nominations today. Councillor Maura Hopkins was the last Roscommon person to be confirmed as a candidate. She announced on Friday morning that she would be contesting the election for the Administrative …
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Cllr Maura Hopkins has welcomed the €945,193 allocated to elderly and disabled people in Roscommon for house adaptations and extensions. The announcement was made this week by the current Minister for the Environment and will allow extensions and house adaptations to be built for people with disabilities or mobility problems, such as stair lifts and …
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