Officership time limit for debate

THE five-year limitation on county board officerships, due to kick in at the end of the year, will be a subject for debate among delegates when annual Congress gets under way in Hotel Kilkenny this evening and before a motion to remove the rule comes up for discussion tomorrow morning.

Interestingly, a motion submitted by the Kilkenny County Board, which proposed the introduction of a rota system is certain to be withdrawn.

Apart from a proposal from a club in Monaghan to put no limit on the terms of office, the only other motion on this subject has come from the Cork County Board which suggests that (county) treasurers should not be subject to the existing rule. This had originally been recommended by the Strategic Review Committee but rejected at the Special Congress which followed. However, it was subsequently adopted at annual Congress.