Ned O'Sullivan (Fianna Fail)

Local authority members are very much in touch with local opinion.

It is important to bear in mind that Shannon Development, unlike some organisations and quangos of which there are so many in the State, is self-financing, generating income from its own activities. It is not too late to do something about the recommendation in the report of an bord snip nua, if what we have heard is accurate. Since the days of the French Revolution, tribunals have been noted for throwing out the baby with the bathwater. This may be a classic example of that. Nobody is expecting an bord snip nua to present a love letter to the public. We all know a hard rain will fall, as Bob Dylan said.