Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to have to read that document into the record of the House because I have listened to nonsense about this system we are putting in place which upgrades the relationship between the citizen and the local authority, which deals once and for all with the boundary extensions that bedevilled local authorities like New Ross, Kilkenny County Council and Waterford, over the years. Fianna Fáil representatives are crying crocodile tears for a structure that only a small number of years ago, in a party policy document, adopted by their parliamentary party, they wanted to get rid of.