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GENIA MCCAFFREY: Look, we are required to complete what's called an emergency risk management report, so all councils are required to do this.
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GENIA MCCAFFREY: No, I don't think we can and given our limited resources we should be focusing on the things that we have some real expectation that have a likelihood of happening.
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GENIA MCCAFFREY: Well, Sara you'd think it might be remote but any of us who fly in or out of Sydney know how close you fly over heavily populated areas.
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GENIA MCCAFFREY: Now, this is a real borderline one because in lots of ways this is probably really a state responsibility and local government is paying for it.
But we don't have any choice.
The State Government dictates to us and we have to do it.
PETER CAVE: Genia McCaffrey the president of the Local Government Association of New South Wales, speaking to Sara Everingham.