Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

Even though I live in the west of the county, if the council wishes to spend that money in the east of the county, it can. I will go through this with the Deputy for an hour or 30 minutes at some time if he wishes. I will go through it line by line to show him that I cannot and do not in any way influence the specific choices made in respect of the CLÁR programme. Everything is objective and fair. If there is an east-west bias in County Galway, it is one of two things, either the western community is more active or the county council favours the west over the east. This would be amazing, implying the seven members from the west can out-manoeuvre the 23 members from the east.

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