Barry Ward (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

Councillor Coughlan mentioned that she cannot do it within the municipal districts in Cork County Council; at least it has them. Cork City Council does not have municipal districts and neither does Galway City Council.

Cork City Council has local electoral areas. The big difference is local electoral areas do not have devolved decision-making. This is a big complaint I have coming from a Dublin local authority. When they got rid of the town councils, they replaced them with municipal districts. Those of us who did not have them did not get municipal districts, which means that all of the decisions have to be made at local authority level.