Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

No, my mobile telephone is on aircraft mode. It is not as though I am about to take off any time soon but it should not interfere. In essence, I do not see how the culture will change whereby the councillors have almost depended on the county finance officer or the county manager for the information they have got to help frame the budget. I cannot envisage how the new legislation will change that culture. This is the reason I thought that changing the location at which one makes the decision might be a way to achieve this.

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