Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)

I raised a question about the transfer of powers from the local authorities and the city manager, Dr. John Tierney, said, "This was in the programme for Government and I was not consulted." Is it the case that none of the local authority managers was consulted? They are the experts. Engineers have made their views known, as Deputy Clare Daly said, but it is crazy not to have consulted the managers overseeing the local authorities.

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