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The government signed off on plans to introduce a new biogas strategy, which will include a €40m grant scheme for biogas developers this week but with a damming EPA report this week. For more on this, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue.

It was initially to be opened in 2022 but a new completion date of February next year has now been given by the builders BAM for the new Hospital to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee today. We hear Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan's view.

With just over a week to go until the local elections Drivetime reporters have been travelling the country to ask you about the issues in your city or county council area. John Cooke is in Tipperary

New research from pension provider, Irish Life, suggests women need to work eight years longer than men to achieve the same pension pot at retirement - leaving more working women at risk of old age poverty. Director in Employer Solutions at Irish Life, Shane O'Farrell tells us more.

Tents housing asylum seekers were cleared from the Grand Canal in Dublin this morning, the third such clearance in recent weeks. To discuss this Dr Fiona O'Reilly of Safetynet primary care and also by Paul Murphy, People Before Profit TD.

Candidates for the Midlands North West constituency discuss the issues that matter to you in next Friday's vote. From our Galway studio, Fine Gael MEP Maria Walsh, Sinn Fein MEP Chris McManus, Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly, Aontu leader Peadar Toibin, and Social Democrats candidate Rory Hearne.