EVEN IF the Government is flummoxed as to how to rescue the ailing property industry, the brave executives of Meath County Councilare not short of ideas as to how to get the market moving again.

In what it is calling "innovative thinking and innovative partnership", the council officials have set up a brand new Property Listings Serviceto help businesses find suitable business properties in the county.

They have set up a partnership with estate agents "who populate the site with the relevant information". Surely flooded would be a better word, but anyway, it is hardly surprising that 45 national and local estate agents have joined forces to get their businesses moving again.

With any number of vacant business premises around the county, not to mention a glut of former furniture factories in Navan, businesses will have no problem in finding cheap accommodation. After all, it is only an hour from Dublin, provided you travel in the middle of the night. Now how about some initiative on getting workers from Meath to Dublin in less than three hours?