According to Labour's Cllr Keith Martin "Councillor Margaret Adams has been very premature in her public comments this week on Mid West Radio in calling for the council to acquire the convent buildings in Westport for the new Civic Offices."
Cllr Martin says "It is a bit disingenuous of Cllr Adams to infer by her comments that she is the driving force behind such a move when the truth is that all nine councillors have been involved in the issue for some time."
Cllr Martin says that over a month ago Westport Town Council instructed Town Manager Peter Hynes to investigate the possible purchase of the convent buildings and voted unanimously to put together a subcommittee to oversee the negotiations on the site.
"Westport Town Councillors also agreed to keep the negotiations confidential to allow management to conduct the negotiations out of the public arena. To my knowledge this is the situation today and I think it would be best if Cllr Adams refrained from making speculative comments on the radio on an issue that has already been discussed and agreed to by all councillors and was supposed to be confidential."
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