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"Mr President, it was the great Irish American politician Tip O’Neill who said that all politics is local, and that is absolutely correct. While policies may be made at national level, their application at local level is what really impacts on peoples’ lives. For that reason it is important that we are emphasising and discussing this issue tonight. I compliment the rapporteur on her recommendations.
In my country, our Minister has recently introduced the greatest reform of local government ever since the state was founded, abolishing some small town councils, amalgamating some county councils, etc, and reducing the number of elected politicians, but particularly, I think, trying to get more authority and focus at local level to deal with the major issues which the rapporteur pointed out, and especially to show people that taxes that are collected locally stay locally to deal with local problems. If people see that, they will have a much happier and better approach to government."@en1
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