Issue - meetings

In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.

Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.

No members of the public were present at the meeting.

Visiting Members of the Council were invited by the Chairman to speak if they wished to do so.

Councillor Brendan Murphy said that, at the last meeting of the Staffing Committee, he had raised a question about any involvement of the former Chief Executive in these proceedings.  He was disappointed to see that this would not be the case and raised concerns about the lack of involvement of the former Chief Executive, which he described as being “precarious to the Council”.