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OPINION:Ending the Department of the Environment’s stranglehold over local government is the key to effective reform, writes DERMOT LACEY

FOR IRELAND’S sake, Dublin needs to run Dublin. The present situation – in which an array of uninterested quangos, largely unaccountable State bodies and often disconnected departments interfere in the affairs of the county without any appreciable knowledge or sympathy for the region – cannot continue. Quite simply, Dublin deserves better.