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Limerick councillors to lobby minister to redirect seized cash to local projects Reporter: ');  '); COUNCIL is to write to government urging laws be put in place to allow drug trafficking monies confiscated under the Proceeds of Crime legislation redirected locally. At this month’s council meeting, a motion from Independent member Fergus Kilcoyne urging the local authority to write to Justice Minister Helen McEntee, Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe, and Public Expenditure Minister Michael McGrath was passed. In his motion, Cllr Kilcoyne argued this money could be channeled back into local ...

Finance Minister Pascal Donohoe has said he will meet with the Cross Border Workers Coalition in the new year. The group has welcomed the minister's commitment, which follows a Dail discussion on the taxation issues facing cross-border workers early during consideration of the Finance Bill. Pascal Donohoe made the commitment in response to an amendment which was tabled at Report Stage of the Finance Bill by Donegal Deputy and Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Pearse Doherty. He called on the government to prepare a report on the operation of income tax relief for cross-border workers. The Cross...