Taoiseach Says Local Government Should Play Bigger Role In Employment

Taoiseach says local government should play bigger role in employment

The Taoiseach says local governments need to play a bigger role in getting people back to work. Enda Kenny says the local property tax will give councils a bigger budget and a greater chance to rebuild the economy. He has told an audience in Cork that his government has faced a major challenge in trying to get various State agencies to work together. And he borrowed a rugby analogy to explain the need for a better approach to creating jobs. "Certainly one of the inefficiencies or one of the inadequacies of our system as a country is that government departments have tended to operate in sort-of tunnels, that the connection is not there, that the big push of the Muster pack has never been evident in the...national challenge to deal with it from a government point of view" he said.