Feargal Quinn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I congratulate the delegation on their stories, it reminded me so much of myself, 50 years ago, going into Dundalk. Some of the problems are the same but some are new. Perhaps the delegation can tell us things that we can do. Perhaps it would outline the position on parking levies, as I am not up to date on them, and on Joint Labour Committee, JLC, wage structures. I had understood this had been addressed but it has not from what has been said.

Will there be a change to the view expressed by RGDATA that we rely too much on the State, Government and council to do things? How can we encourage everybody to clean the streets and clean their own footpaths outside their own shops? Some towns do so. I travelled to Drogheda last year or the year before where I found that people in the town did not talk to one another, and one street did not talk to another street. We got them all together and one of the first things they said that they do not tidy up the street as they look to the council to do it on a daily basis but they would be prepared to do so on the days the council does not. I got them all promise to clean the street outside. Sometimes we have got to do the work ourselves rather than rely on somebody else.

I wish to refer to the competition Bill and the reduction in the relevant charge from €50 to €10. What is that about?