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The reporting of potholes, illegal dumping, leaks and other such issues to both town and county councils was once upon a time in the main part the work of elected councillors. But not so any more. The elected members of Mayo County Council were given a demonstration on the new www.fixyourstreet.ie website and some were not impressed with what they saw.

The members of the Ballina Electoral Area Committee will meet next week to work out the road works plan for the area with senior engineers from Mayo County Council. At Wednesday’s monthly meeting of the committee the idea was mooted that the individual councillors would not take up the potential €7,000 that can be allocated to Local Improvement Scheme (LIS) works on private roads and they would put the money back into public road works budget.

A marathon debate on rewriting the rules of how Galway city council meetings are governed, ran for four and a half hours in City Hall on Monday evening.

Athlone town councillor Sheila Buckley Byrne asked the February meeting of Athlone Town Council if it would be possible to pass a bylaw to limit begging in the town.

Unruly councillors whose behaviour causes city council meetings to be abandoned, look set to be hit in the pocket with new proposals designed to strip disruptive politicians of their allowance and privileges.

Councillor Myles Staunton made a proposal at the Westport Joint Policing Committee meeting this week that a provision should be put in the Anti-Social policy document which will enable the “immediate expulsion from local authority housing” of anyone who lives in social housing and who allows someone who is involved in anti-social behaviour to stay with them.

Following their second public meeting and after a number of behind closed doors sessions the elected members of Ballina Town Council finalised their budget for 2013 on Wednesday evening. Following the protracted discussions, the members agreed to keep the commercial rate the same in the town as the previous year at a figure of €64.52 in the euro, but made a number of changes to the spending priorities in the budget.

Four Castlebar town councillors who did not attend any conferences in 2011, according to the latest available figures, voted against an €11,000 allocation in this year’s budget for funding attendance at conferences.

The screening of a film on life for disabled people in Galway caused shock at Monday’s city council meeting but also hopes that it will be the first step in tackling the issues being raised.

Fine Gael councillor Pádraig Conneely should be made apologise for his “unseemly and disruptive behaviour” which led to the abandonment of Monday’s city council meeting.