Issue - meetings

“With Executive Board withdrawing the report Agile investment plan on the future of Town hall Ammanford and the Old Library can you now reassure us that the Town Hall and Old Library are safe under Plaid led administration”.

“With Executive Board withdrawing the Agile investment plan on the future of Town hall Ammanford and the Old Library can you now reassure me that the Town Hall and Old Library are safe under the Plaid led administration”.

Response by Councillor Emlyn Dole, Leader of the Council:-

The question is misplaced and ill-conceived by Councillor Madge and, by asking it he does himself no favours in this chamber or, in his local community either by asking ill-conceived questions based on political scaremongering, based on mythological assumptions. The report has been withdrawn, it should have said in your question withdrawn for further consideration. That’s a deferment, because we wanted more consideration around that. That consideration and that report on Agile Working will come back to the Executive Board. After, according to our procedures, set down by this Council, after it’s been discussed by the Executive Board then, I’ll be free to answer questions based on the report that’s been discussed. To date, no such report has been discussed by the Executive Board so the supposition made by Councillor Madge, and others, and I will hold them to account on that when we have discussed that report in this Chamber and on a wider basis because the assumptions they make based on pure myth has unsettled and does nothing to re-assure our employees who are working their best under the conditions they are under at the moment. I fully support agile working where that adds to the staffs’ efficiency and to their ability to undertake their duties properly and even to a greater extent than they do now. But, that agile report hasn’t been considered yet. So the question is based on a myth pedalled by the local politicians.

Councillor Madge asked the following supplementary question:- 

Why did you put it into the Executive Board and then frightening everybody in August when everybody was on holidays.

Response by Councillor Emlyn Dole, Leader of the Council

The answer is quite simple, I haven’t. It hasn’t come to Executive Board yet.