From the Galway City Tribune – A business owned by a city councillor and entrepreneur held contracts with a dozen county councils nationwide last year.

The latest declarations in the ethics forms filed by all 18 elected members at City Hall also show that four city councillors are small landlords with one or two rental properties.

Ethics forms must be completed every year by elected members. Each councillor is obliged to self-declare their property interests, land ownership, and directorships of companies among other items, to comply with the Local Government Act.

The latest returns, supplied by the City Council to the Galway City Tribune, relate to January-December of 2021.

Councillor Noel Larkin (Ind) is the managing director of Larkin Engineering Enterprises Ltd based in Weir Road, Tuam.

It is a “street furniture manufacturer” involved in “light engineering processes”.

Contracts with each local authority that exceed €6,348 in value must be declared in the ethics forms.

The company has supplied street furniture to 30 town councils and twelve county councils across the country, according to Cllr Larkin’s return.

Cllr Larkin said he was a director of Restfield Ltd, a company based in Wellpark that was “currently not trading”. He also owns a rental property in Murrough, as well as his family home.

(Photo: Councillor Noel Larkin’s company supplied street furniture to 30 town councils and 12 county councils).

This is a shortened preview version of this article. For the rest of the councillors’ declarations and to support our journalism, see the September 2 edition of the Galway City Tribune. You can buy a digital edition HERE.