Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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Deputy MacSharry raised a very important point. I am a former Galway city councillor. Unfortunately, he finished on a sentence that should perhaps alert us to something. He said, "Will Mr. McCarthy have a word in his ear?" It is an unfortunate choice of phrase because a word in a person's ear has perhaps led to a lot of our problems in Ireland.

I am going to ask a number of questions about staffless libraries, which comes under the Department's remit, about housing, about the land aggregation scheme and so on. I am not sure if the Department is aware of the reality on the ground. Will Mr. McCarthy give the figures as we speak here today of those on the waiting list in Galway city? Does he have those figures at his fingertips?