I look forward to the day that the work and worth of the councillor are such that he or she will be working almost full-time in local and community politics. When that day arrives, it will inevitably mean that he or she cannot be an active member of Cork County Council and simultaneously a Member of the Oireachtas. It will not be possible to do the two jobs properly. That will require courageous leadership in the Oireachtas. It will demand of politicians at national level the courage to transfer power, responsibility and decision making to local authorities. All Members demand decentralisation. Therefore, let us now practise political decentralisation and make local government real and strong, as it was to some degree in the earlier part of the last century. Local health services were run by the local councillors no less effectively than they are run by the health boards today. Look at the success of the vocational education committees which are sustained by local government. This shows what can be done if we have the political initiative to let it happen.