Madam, - Dublin City Council's manager, Mr John Fitzgerald, states on the council website:
"Dublin City Council recognises the need to change to provide the citizens of Dublin with improved services. Our public representatives and staff have been looking critically at structures to see how they can be improved as we face into the next millennium. We are listening to what you are saying and responding."
Last Saturday's short but heavy rainfall left many roads inundated with water, much of which remained in situ for many hours (due to submerged, non-functioning gullies, many filled with significant quantities of muck). At the height of the deluge, I saw an elderly lady desperately attempting to clear a blocked gully at her doorstep with her crutches. - Yours, etc.,
PHILIP O'REILLY, Anna Villa, Ranelagh, Dublin 6.