Town councils ‘best local government’, says report

TOWN councils offer the best and most efficient form of local government in Ireland and should be given enhanced roles in any reform of the sector, a new report has claimed.

It also suggests that local democracy could be destroyed through the abolition of town councils to achieve potential savings of just €6 million.

The study claims that town and borough councils are significantly less reliant on central government funding compared to city and county councils, yet are regularly targeted for exchequer cutbacks.