Councillors mustered votes from pub, tribunal told
Counsel for the tribunal John Gallagher SC said there were suggestions that the policy of allowing a three-minute break before votes on rezoning motions was used by members to fetch colleagues from Conway's Pub on Parnell Street so they would be present for votes.
Witness Sinead Collins, an administrative officer in the council planning office in the early 1990s, said she had no knowledge of this practice but agreed the pub was no more than 200 yards from the back entrance of the O'Connell Street council chamber and the trip between the two via the garage and a laneway would take at most a minute.
