Eileen Flynn (Independent)
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If you have it. I do not want this to be a football between us because that is not what this committee is for. It is just so run-down and vulnerable people are on the site. Some of the top of the site was redeveloped - I get that - but the entrance going into Kylemore Grove and the whole site itself are run down. It is the same or similar in St. Margaret's. In the TAP and local traveller consultative committees, we need to look at how to support county councillors and the local authority to deliver. TAP is the only committee that local authorities - councillors - are not paid to sit on. How do we deal with local authorities? It would be unfair, regarding the halting site I came out of today, to say it is throwing money away because there are little or no services being delivered to the top of the site. The head of the Traveller accommodation is leaving. I wish him all the best in whatever it is he is going on to do. I listen to the changes and I think, if that was only the case for seeing from the outside looking in.