John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

We should pursue greater efficiencies wherever we can make them. However, I would point out that we are very much in line with the McCarthy report. The Deputy mentioned the efficiency review group, which is a group I introduced and which does very good work under Mr. McLoughlin. It has identified a number of efficiencies at local government level. My Department is on course with regard to the McCarthy report and I have introduced another group to take a particular look at the Dublin area. This group is about to start examining the boundaries. However, wherever we attempt to introduce efficiencies, we always face a problem with some Fine Gael councillors.

See this speech in context