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FABRIC & WOOL O'CONNELL STREET, HORNIBROOKS DUNGARVAN WE ARE CLOSING Dungarvan reader ON SATURDAY FOR ALL STOCK TO CLEAR mr and SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT Wool from 50p a ball. TOYOTA Vol.Circulating 49. No. 2538 .throughout FRIDAYthe County, NOVEMBE and CityR 20 , of1987 Waterford,. SB?38& SouthA£75*85 Tipperary™ andPRIC ESouth-East 25p (inc. VATCork) WATERFORD CO. COUNCIL PENSMAN TAKES fOU Council Fails To Decide On '88 Estimates After a meeting .lasting two 1 shown an Interest in the ready have good jobs." there would then be no need ties was not forthcoming soon An amendment was then pro- hours in Dungarvan last Mon- scheme but they did not require for an increase in charges. "11 it would spell the end of Co. day. members of Waterford Co. Cllr. James A. Walsh said posed by Cllr. C. Casey and sec- all that number to go. will be opposing these proposals Councils. "The time has now onded by Cllr. Harty that the TRAFFIC DISRUPTION IN tadbta agus ata 'na chomhrnui i Council failed to reach a de- "The national finances in all that the Manager's report con- come," he said, "for -?veryone tained a very sad story due by the Manager as the charges Council go through the esti- DUNGARVAN dTna Li fe lathfeidr. cision on the estimates for departments of the State are are not being collected as it is." in this country to face UD to funding the nubile services in mainly to the savage cuts im- mates item by item and this at present under the micro- he said. their responsibilities and if we was carried by 11 votes to 7. On Sunday next., November It is a letter that refers to a the county in 1988. An effort to scope." he added, "and it would posed by the Government. "In don't face up to our responsi- getting rid of the disease they The co. Manager replied that At this stage Standing Orders 22, traffic in the Main Street- little bi-l'ingual paragraph which extend the meeting beyond the be absolutely unrealistic to he could not run the services bilities this Council will be statutory ending time of 5 p.m. are killing the patient which is nad to be suspended to allow we included in this column the think that Local Government without staff and they could abolished." He added that it the meeting to continue beyond Friary Street area in Dungar- also ended in failure when a completely unrealistic," he said. ill-behoved members of the last week following -the victory of would be excluded from the not let, too many go. 5 p.m. but within five minutes van will be disrupted when number of members claimed scalpel. I regret that we have Cllr. B. Kyne said that they Cllr. Jim Harty, first remark- Coalition Government to criti- the Ring GAA Club in the B that they had become confused were just reacting to Govern- a proposal came up from Cllr. work on the laying of a new no money to do more but that ing that there seemed little the cise the present Government as O'Riordan that the meeting main sewer will commence. As junior Hurling County Final and did not know what, they is the position and I recom- ment policy which saw noCounci l could do, then launch- the national debt had risen were voting for and it was then money coming in rates from stand adjourned as members a result the Dungarvan Urban and the scleip agus oreac a bhi mend that the Estimates as ed a blistering attack on from £12 billion to £24 billion were confused and did not decided to adjour,ni the- issue submitted be adopted." farmers while urban business Deputy Fahey. "I'm surprised," while they were in power. Council has issued a request ar siubhal sa Rinn d'a bharr. until next Monday. people were being pushed to know what the-y were voting said Cllr. Harty. "to hear him At this point the Chairman. for. that persons attending Masses Leitir an-dheas isea e agus At thp outset the: Co. Mana- The total expenditure for the the limit. "If the estimates as year at £17.349,100 showed a presented are passed It will say he will oppose these char- Cllr. P. Kenneally said that the Deputy Swift voiced -criticism in the Friary Ohurcih for thetaimii d an-bhuioc dt>'n te a ger. Mr. Dan Hurley pointed ges as he is a member of the estimates had been fully dis- cutback of £1.733.400 on themea n that a significant num- of this, calling it a childish duration Should use the carscriob h e as an meid ata raite out that the Council had al- Government, which produced cussed and it was time for ready discussed the estimates current year and in addition ber of outdoor jobs will go The these cutbacks. Recently Mr. exercise. "We should stand up park for parking cars so as to ann. Is mar seo leanas do to the increases and new char- Council is now on its last legs members to decide whether and be counted and be men en- at two meetings held in com- Fahey and the Minister visited they were for or against. minimise traffic congestion in scriobh se: "Niockis, a chara, mittee. Since then they had ges proposed would require a as we won't have the finance ough to vote on the estimates rate of £26.79 which was an in the long run to keep .going Helvick and promised £75,000 Deputy Brian Swift then pro- and not be like a crowd of mice the area. Traoslaim libh bhur ngaisce san been notified of Road Grants to dredge the barbour but posed that the figures in the totalling £2.944.000 for 1988 as increase of 5°u in the current and we will be disbanded." he scurrying off to another meet- iomaint. Is fada bheas tracht rate. said. there's no mention of that here Book of Estimates as presented ing next week," he said. The traffic disruption will against a total of £4,055,000 for to-day." by the Manager be adopted air, is dbcha. the current, year but this was m Cllr. O'iRiordan's amendment continue until Friday, Decem- Cllr. G. O'Halloran was first Deputy Jackie Fahey said Cllr. M. O'Riordan deplored with an addition of £10.000 foi was then put and carried by 11 accordance with what they had on his feet, suggesting that a that, this wa a very difficult a cut of £75,000 in the Library improvements at Waterford ber 11 and the Town Clerk, Mr. "Bhaineas otna thtiithneamh s votes to 7 and the meeting was estimated and he was not too cut in the mileage allowances estimates meeting for both the Service but the Manager re-Airport. B. White told Cllr. Austin Hal- as a raibh scriobhta 'sna paipeir unhappy with the situation then adjourned until next paid to both members and offi- members and officials and plied that the service had to Cllr. C. o Riain seconded. 'Monday. lahan at last Monday night's aitiula faoi aoh is doigh Horn Thp Manager also said that cials could be a factor to create while there was general accep- bear its share of the cuts like meeting of Dungarvan Urban gur bhaiheas nios mho taith- the voluntary redundancy a necessary saving. "The public tance that, cutbacks and econo- all the others scheme which had been offered perception where the officials Council that the area would be neamh as an bplosa "Jubilation mies had to be made it was also ABOLISHED to all the Council staff had been arr: concerned." said Cllr. O'Hal- accepted that there was no sa Ghaeltachit" a bhi ar an rehabilitated in ample time for responded to by a much bigger loran. "Is that these travelling room for Increased taxation. He Cllr. C. O Riain said that this SUMMARY OF COUNTY the Christmas rush. Dungarvan Leader na as aon ni number than they had expect- expenses are the gravy on anfel t that if enough availed of was his 33rd estimates meeting eile. ed. so far 9 officer grades and already good dinner as they are the voluntary redundancy offer and again warned that If pro- 160 non-officer grades had being paid to people who al- VOCATIONAL PROJECT "Shdl me go raibh se comh there would be a big saving and per funding for Local Authori- MANAGER'S REPORT ON LONG FINGER h-ealalonta do phiios-a. tuairis- ceoireachta dla theangail agus a The Co. Manager, Mr. Danen w areas of charge as follows. The Government has com- Hurley, in the course of his re- Domestic water charge up by menced the dismantling of the leigh me riamh. port on the Estimates to th£1e 0 to £95. The waiver scheme school building section of the "Ta idir scribhneoiri agus Council pointed out that in will continue but in 1988 i-t is 1-987 the financial cutbacks Department of Education and iom ana ithe agaibh. Ce scriobh DUNGARVAN'S HAPPY CENTENARIAN proposed to apply a minimum e?" in the Department's funding charge of £26. equivalent to 50p the majority of the staff there necessitated a reduction in ser- per week or 7p per day: non- have been asked to accept Wall, an dtuigeann to an meid CELEBRATES vices and a limited shorttlme domestic up by 8.5% to £1.30 voluntary redundancy (isn't sin? Is mise boc-ht fein a scriobh working.

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