Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)

With respect, it was not the actions of local authority members such as me that led to power being taken away. In fact, when I was a county councillor, we did not have that power. It was weak-minded people such as Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil local authority members who could not deal with the facts; they went with what the crowd was saying at the time.

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