Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Where council officials come back with a proposal that an elected representative examines and genuinely decides he or she cannot support, that does not mean that he or she is hypocritical. That was a wrong choice of word. Public representatives, particularly at council level, are struggling with this on every occasion this arises. I say that as someone who was quite willing to support the Part VIII schemes of my former council and I believed that what we are doing is the right thing in the process. However, I would not classify my colleagues who opposed them as having any motive other than the fact that they believed they had a problem with the specific proposal.