Plan to unify Clare, Limerick councils

Run_to_da_hills

Clare should fight this tooth and nail, it is already starting with the HSE with night time emergency service shifting to Limerick, next it will be other community services.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0504/1224269640153.html

Stuxnet

does this mean more or less knackers with pants tucked into socks ?

Run_to_da_hills

BOBBY wrote: »

does this mean more or less knackers with pants tucked into socks ?

You mean possible scumbag migration

Nevermind_

I agree with Bobby, I'll go along with whatever means less knackers with pants tucked into socks migrating into Clare.

But seriously I really dont see the point in this. Limerick city council are at least as incompetant as Clare CoCo.
Let them manage parts just outside the city that are in clare if they really want and it makes sense but you dont need to change the border to do that.

Whats next, Limerick needs an airport so they decide to annex the border all the way to shannon?

Carry

Are there borders in Ireland (apart from the North and even there it's blink and miss)?
Do Limerick people have to show their passports when crossing the "border" to Clare? Are they not allowed to move where-ever they want? Do they need a permission to live in Clare or elsewhere?
They do it anyway.

I think it's not a bad idea to make one county council out of three. It saves a lot of money and might even (with the right people) get rid of the parochial thinking and parochial thinking buddies in the local councils.

Not a good idea though (I agree with the op) is centralisation of services. But a joint administration can always see to it that there are branches everywhere - like the Clare county library for example: has the hq in Ennis but branches in several villages.

BOBBY

BOBBY wrote: »

does this mean more or less knackers with pants tucked into socks ?

Definately more..

phill106

Nevermind_ wrote: »

Whats next, Limerick needs an airport so they decide to annex the border all the way to shannon?

Limerick does have an airport!
Coonagh
Let them build that up!

Tora Bora

Why in fcuk, do we need sooooooooo many county councils, and greasy paw councillors, costing a fortune, not to mention council employees in offices. It's lunacy of the highest order.
Just take Clare Co Co. These idiots, have built themselves a great big corporate headquarters in Ennis at enormous cost. They paid their fat ass office employees disturbance money, to move out of the old building while it was being demolished and then paid them more disturbance money to move back in when it was rebuilt :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Multiply that ****e by all the counties in Ireland.
Then there is the planners............................ who lashed out zoning like it was going out of fashion, to bankrupt developers, to build houses that wer not needed in the first instance.
Meanwhile if you live a mile out the country, you cannot fart, with the Gestapo rules they apply to planning.
Get rid of 80% of councils, councillors, offices, headquarters, and get back to basics.
Ah, I feel better now:D

clarelad

Tora Bora wrote: »

Why in fcuk, do we need sooooooooo many county councils, and greasy paw councillors, costing a fortune, not to mention council employees in offices. It's lunacy of the highest order.
Just take Clare Co Co. These idiots, have built themselves a great big corporate headquarters in Ennis at enormous cost. They paid their fat ass office employees disturbance money, to move out of the old building while it was being demolished and then paid them more disturbance money to move back in when it was rebuilt :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Multiply that ****e by all the counties in Ireland.
Then there is the planners............................ who lashed out zoning like it was going out of fashion, to bankrupt developers, to build houses that wer not needed in the first instance.
Meanwhile if you live a mile out the country, you cannot fart, with the Gestapo rules they apply to planning.
Get rid of 80% of councils, councillors, offices, headquarters, and get back to basics.
Ah, I feel better now:D

Well said:)

MarkR

Most of ye were born in Limerick anyway!

I presume if they did merge those councils, they would get larger, and be proportionally served by Limerick and Clare members?

Once something like that happens, then surely it would save money and make them more efficient.