Reply To: an taisce-and rumours of them going bust

Fin,

I agree that in an ideal World it would be great if local authorities monitored their areas in accordance with their mandates. But since the abolition of residential rates in 1977 by CJ Haughey local authorities have faced serious funding deficits.

The grants made by Noel Dempsey were an acknowledgement that the system needed an external monitor of the development process.