In Reply to: Since then local authorities have been starved of cash posted by Well on March 11, 2006 at 20:50:54:

Yeah 450 would get you enough chlorine to sterilise 10 houses in Knockaphunta for about 6 weeks. Even Maloney's famous 80,000 expenses wouldn't pay for a pump along the line the infrastructure. The Dail decides on the system - politicians first 80,000 is nuthin to them - citizens afterwards. How else would we have had 13 aucitoneers in a council of 31. Separate the politicians from the people who do the work. The council ain't just the councillors - the two are diametrically opposed so first pick your target. The people you elect or the people who do the work?