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and empower Councillors to exercise effective governance and compliance over the €5bn administered by local authorities annually; and to be public not private representatives.
By Fiona McLoughlin Healy.
The Report on the Role and Remuneration of Local Authority Elected Members written by Senior Counsel Sara Moorhead issued to Minister John Paul Phelan last year and recommended an increase of €8,000 on the current salary for Councillors, bringing it to €25,000 annually and dilution of the increase by a reduction in expenses.
Subsequent debate has focused on the remuneration element of the report, diverting attention away from a concerning finding of the report that: