Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Leader made an interesting statement, castigating Fianna Fáil for the fact that people in local government are on inflated salaries. Sinn Féin has been saying this for a long time, especially in our pre-budget submissions where we called for real reform in salary rates at local government level. That has not been looked at by this Government. If it is unacceptable that these people are on inflated salaries the Government has continued with the regime that preceded it.

I wish to focus mainly on local development companies, a very serious issue that concerns me. I have met with local partnership companies in the Galway area which are very concerned. The Minister is a great man for finding letters that were put in filing cabinets by former Ministers who occupied his office. There was one on the septic tanks issue, and a European directive.