The cost of public jobs is out of control, said an independent county councillor this week, adding that he feared that the customers in his pub would fall off their bar stool when he told them the cost.
Cllr Harry Walsh, a member of the Ballinrobe electoral area committee and candidate in the new six-seater Claremorris area in the June elections, made his comments at a local area meeting this week, the last ever meeting of the Ballinrobe area due to the re-structuring of the electoral boundaries.
Cllr Walsh, a publican by trade, said his customers often praise the council on a good job done on removing a bad corner, but they always ask how much the job cost.
Cllr Walsh said he has to tell them to sit on a stool with a back when he tells them the price, because they are left reeling in disbelief.
Customers of his believe they could carry out many public jobs for three times cheaper than what the council do it for with a nice holiday abroad for themselves after.
