North Tipp representative Phyll Bugler laid the charge during heated exchanges at this month's Nenagh Municipal District meeting – however some questioned her argument accusing her of double standards.
Addressing council officials at the Civic offices in Nenagh Fine Gael Councillor Phyll Bugler questioned why information she had sought on behalf of a constituent was given to an Oireachtas member – who's from outside the constituency three weeks earlier.
Cllr Bugler said that she had made up to 15 requests and felt undermined when she realised that another individual from outside the electoral area seemed to swoop in and get the information.
She told officials that she didn't accept such a pecking order, that she wasn't going to be in a pecking order and threatened to make an official complaint unless she got answers.
However Meeting Administrator Rosemary Joyce hit back insisting there was no pecking order and that she would take exception if anybody got the impression that an Oireachtas member got priority.
She informed Cllr Bugler that while she wasn't aware of the particular incident she could assure her it wasn't intentional adding difficulties can arise if people sent in requests to various different people then they go to multiple sources.
A view echoed by Marcus O Connor who also insisted there was no policy on a pecking order and no such system in place.
Other councillors like Ger Darcy said that in the past other members would have had similar experiences to Cllr Bugler – while Cllr Seamie Morris questioned how she could give out about getting undermined by Oireachtas members when she released details of an in camera workshop to the media within 24 hours of the meeting.
