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Today’s (Monday’s) Irish Times<\/a> carries an opinion piece I wrote on the need for local government reform in Dublin.<\/p>\n

You can read it below and on the Irish Times website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ending the Department of the Environment\u2019s stranglehold over local government is the key to effective reform, writes DERMOT LACEY<\/p>\n

FOR IRELAND\u2019S sake, Dublin needs to run Dublin. The present situation \u2013 in which an array of uninterested quangos, largely unaccountable State bodies and often disconnected departments interfere in the affairs of the county without any appreciable knowledge or sympathy for the region \u2013 cannot continue. Quite simply, Dublin deserves better.<\/p>\n

The situation whereby more than 40 organisations have responsibility for traffic is the most obvious example of this. But there are more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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