Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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On that issue, the reason I agreed to go into private session was to try to avoid having everybody speaking on every subject and going around the houses on every aspect. I do not mind whether we are in public or private session, it is all the same.

I do suggest that, as part of the work programme, we should identify and have a response from the county managers throughout the country, or as many of them as possible. They may be able to identify the extent to which they, within their respective administrative areas, can address the problems that we face, both in the short term - the emergency aspect - and in the medium term as regards planning for the future, as well as addressing how to co-ordinate the two. We need that information fairly quickly. I have sought it privately in respect of my own local authority and have had some information. We need it for the other local authorities as well if we are going to be successful in dealing with the matter. Otherwise in two months' time we will be still talking about it.