David Cullinane (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will finish on this point. The Minister had this big opportunity to reform local government and he flunked it. I would genuinely ask him to re-examine the merger of Waterford city and county councils but also to re-examine his overall reform of local government. I believe he will get the support of all parties and the people of this State if he is the first reforming Minister to give local government what it needs, namely, real power and real responsibility.