Mr. Niall Botty O'Callaghan:

Do not worry about Dublin because we will handle it. I forgot to say at the start that my relationship with the executive of Kerry County Council is amazing. They are great people. We must, though, always think about the councillors who are not getting along with the executive. Right now, we have a system whereby if you do not get on with the CEO, it will not be possible to get anything done. These are just the facts. We have set up the civil servants to run the country in the background. I would love to see the people in the Dáil and Seanad taking control back. They are elected. They stand for office and put their names forward. They call to our doors and we call to other people's doors. Well, everybody else calls to doors. I ask the members of the Dáil and Seanad to please take the power back and to have the civil servants answerable to them, rather than the civil servants being answerable to no one. There is stuff going on in this regard. When I see civil servants refusing to come to meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts and all these things, it just means the elected members have lost power. I ask the elected people, therefore, to take the power back, and this is not being extremist. If we are going to talk about town councils, do not just bring them back and change the name of what the boys in Wicklow are dealing with. Let us give them the autonomy and the power they had before; otherwise, do not bother doing it. I have been here now since 12.30 p.m. and we have got half a sandwich out of it. The best thing I can say in respect of this whole meeting today is that we now all realise Killarney is the best town in the world.