Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What I am hearing is Fianna Fáil expressing concerns about Fingal but facilitating a process whereby this House has already decided on Fingal in circumstances where serious questions now arise about Fingal's role in terms of it flagged to the Department its concern about that role. Residents who have requested information under freedom of information tell us that after that letter from AnnMarie Farrelly, which was in The Irish Times, there is no other evidence under freedom of information of other correspondence of any significance between the Department and the council. There were emails in February 2018 where the Department said it did not have a clue about the council's rate base and asked to be told a bit more about that excuse. There are huge questions here and this Bill is seriously compromised as a result of this. I want those issues answered but I also want Fianna Fáil to take note, it facilitated this appointment, so it must remedy that as well.

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