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Local Elections 2014: What issues will you be raising with candidates on the door?

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  • 12-03-2014 10:26am
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    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,775 ✭✭✭✭


    With local elections in May, what questions will you be asking canvassers when they come calling to your door?

    With household charges, water metering, flood defence and planning dominating the news over the past year, the forthcoming local elections are set to be a lively affair.

    So if a candidate came knocking at your door tomorrow what would you ask them? What issues affect you and yours on a daily basis? What would you like to see changed or introduced? How satisfied are you with the current crowd and what would you like to see changed tomorrow? Do local politics even matter and how should a candidate justify themselves to the electorate?

    This thread is intended to raise issues that are important to you, so hopefully local candidates can take notice. Also this thread is to have no canvassing by candidates or party representatives, and any such actions will not be allowed.

    We at Boards.ie will be getting in touch with as many candidates as we can, and the aim will be for them to come onto Boards to explain their policies, and to answer the questions that you the posters have posed in this threads. When that time comes we aim to use seperate threads for the candidates so that those threads can be answer and policy specific.

    Finally & importantly, we would like this thread to focus on the issues that matter to you & be able to provide the candidates with a clear list of local issues as seen by local posters. If you wish to debate the issues raised - we will create a separate thread.


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    neiphin
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭neiphin


    i would ask michael kilcoyne how could he march around town with the legion of mary ?


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    nuac
    Registered Users Posts: 6,769 ✭✭✭nuac


    I think the abolition of Town Councils is a mistake.

    The new West Mayo "Municipal Area" extends from near Leenane to Blacksod - a distance of about 70 miles.

    Huge area for the seven councillors to service when selected.

    Westport TC helped a lot in the development of the town as an industrial and tourism centre.

    Hard to expect County COunclllors spread out over that dispersed area to focus as well on Westport's development


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    finisklin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭finisklin


    May be worthwhile merging this thread with the other thread on local elections below.


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