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Monday, November 13, 2006

Better Local Government?




Better Local Government; who did it make government better for? The citizen? The Councillor?

Who benefited from the restructuring of Irish Local Government?

We did not get Directly Elected Mayors. We did not get a less bureaucratic form of local government. We did not get a decentralisation of power to local councils.

In fact local government has lost more and more power since then and the number of powers taken from councillors and handed over to the officials has increased since BLG.


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