Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Every other body is up and running. The VECs and health forums have numerous meetings and these committees, in my view, because the local authorities have too much to do, are on the back burner. As far as I know, they have not yet started back in County Meath. One should take them out of the local authority administrative structure. It would be far better for the public and a better use of time to have only the representatives and the gardaí, and have them at that more localised level with the local superintendent and the local gardaí rather than with the chief superintendent of a county or division which, in some cases, is made up of two counties.