Fine Gael councillor Patsy O’Brien told a meeting of the Claremorris electoral area that he was going to have to go back to his constituents with “one hand longer than the other” after an estate was not included on a list of nine in the area for takeover by the council. Mayo County Council planner Brendan Munnelly was outlining to the members the nine estates in the area to which members of the planning department of the council had been assigned, in order to assess what works needed to be done before they were taken over by the council.
“I’m extremely disappointed with this,” Cllr O’Brien told the meeting. “Last May I put down a notice of motion to this committee for Tower View, Ballinrobe, to be taken over by the council and here we are 11 months later and nothing done. It has all been signed, sealed and delivered, and the snag list gone through, it was only at the last meeting that I gave the director of services the completed list.
