Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I commend some of the councils, especially in my area of the country, for the work they have done. They are down on staff, but in fairness to some of the senior engineers on the councils, they worked night and day. I have to commend them on that. They did not have the resources, but they did whatever they could do to help the people.

The Army carried out 2,686 duties, but why am I led to believe that there have to be council people with them on the day, manning a pump? Manning a pump is a pretty simple job. Two Army staff could do it, but from what I understand, we had to pay council staff to do the same job.

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