Decision details

Having declared an interest in this item, Councillor O’Shea left the meeting at 10.33am.

The Monitoring Officer reported that as part of the fact-finding work she had spoken to the complainants and subject members. Whilst in support of the Monitoring Officer’s recommendation that the comments published could not be attributed to the subject members, it was felt that Members generally needed to be made aware that authors needed to ensure that they weren’t compromising a councillor’s integrity and despite different political opinions they must still treat each other with respect.

RESOLVED – no breach of the code of conduct had occurred and therefore no action be taken.

Councillor O’Shea returned to the meeting at the conclusion of this item.