Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I refer to the position of the witnesses as ratepayers. As public representatives, we receive many complaints from business people regarding the amounts they must pay in rates and on what they receive in return from local authorities. Are the witnesses satisfied with the service they are getting from their local authorities? Are they satisfied that the local authorities also recognise the issues they are raising today are part of a wider issue with which they must become involved? I could link that question back to the homeless situation, for example.