Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I was elected to Dáil Éireann at 32 years of age. Since then I have listened to debate after debate, political party after political party, talk about reform. There have been complaints – many of them well founded, others not so well founded – that we are not doing anything about real reform. The minute one goes to the heart of really cutting the umbilical cord between local government and national Government everybody finds a reason it should not be done.