Council seeks advice on €400,000 Healy-Rae contracts

KERRY County Council is to seek legal advice after it emerged that one of its members earned over €400,000 in contracts from the council last year.

Cllr Danny Healy-Rae, son of Deputy Jackie Healy-Rae, was the council’s highest-earning plant hire contractor last year.

Councillors voted by eight to six to seek legal advice on whether a conflict of interest exists where a council member connected to a plant hire firm is involved in work for the council.