Denis Landy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I support my colleague Senator Ned O'Sullivan on the issue of councillors. I ask the Leader, if he is making contact with the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, to check out a concern of mine with him. I have been led to believe that councillors' salaries, small as they are at €16,000 or thereabouts, have been reduced under the Haddington Road agreement, even though no salary below €35,000 was to be reduced. A number of councillors have contacted me about this and I would like the issue clarified. Councillors are employees and are entitled to the same rights as any other employee. I ask the Leader to determine the truth of this matter.

Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, who was the host of the longest-running radio feature programme in the world, died in February of this year. Every Sunday night after the 11 o'clock news, he gave us the results of GAA hurling and football matches from all over the country. His programme ran for 58 years. This time last year I spoke to RTE after I was contacted by an 89 year old man who pointed out to me that RTE no longer carried the results of hurling and football county finals on the 6 o'clock news or the 9 o'clock news. I contacted the head of sport and the director general of RTE. I will not read out the responses I received, but suffice to say I was told that I could go to page 202 of Aertel to find the results. Having told the 89 year old man to go to Aertel page 202 to find the results, I discovered that the head of sport in RTE was actually wrong. The results are actually on pages 211 and 212. The point I am making-----