Kevin O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is a problem that must be resolved in Cork county. The mapping undertaken by the implementation group was questionable. The people who mapped Ireland 1,000 years ago had better co-ordination than the implementation group. Anyone flying over Cork could see the lack of co-ordination in the geography undertaken by this group. Deputy Cassells referred to international borders. What happened here was that once the likes of Cork Airport was inside the boundary, they did not care what way the boundary went in extending Cork city.

I will not dwell on the boundary but I want to raise the matter of compensation. It is dealt with in section 17. The Minister of State needs to tie down a commitment on this because I have no faith in Cork City Council following through on its commitments. I recall many years ago, when I was a member of Cork County Council, when this country was very well advanced in recycling, the local authority, supposedly in conjunction with the then Cork County Council, agreed that it would convert its landfill on Old Head of Kinsale into a recycling unit. We in Cork County Council facilitated a landfill in turn. There were major protests and we were landed with a bill of €30 million. Cork City Council never honoured its part of the agreement since. I urge the Government to tie down the question of compensation, the review and the indexation.

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