Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-20
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Michael Ring (FG), Mayo

The people will get rid you the next time; you had better watch out now. You just watch it. All you are is a mouth, an aul mouth that is always mouthing in here and who has never done anything about any place.
On the local authorities, the Minister of State needs to bring back the town councils and extend them. We should have five or six districts in every county but we should not have six county managers. We should get rid of them, and we should have a manager in each district and they should have their own budget. The elected representatives should have a say and not be running up to the county manager with that manager as director of our services. We have more managers, more directors of services and fewer councillors than we ever had in this country and we have the worst local government.

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Sitting date: 2023-09-20