Select committee on local authority reform
Dukes asked when a promised committee on local authority funding, structures and functions would be established and whether the Government would make proposals to it. The Taoiseach said Whips were discussing it and that its establishment and terms of reference would follow almost immediately.
asked the Taoiseach when he intends to propose the establishment of a select committee of the Oireachtas to examine and report on local authority funding, structures and functions, as promised in the Fianna Fáil-Progressive Democrats Programme for Government.
Comment on this
The Government Chief Whip is discussing the establishment of this committee with the other Whips.
Comment on this
If the Government Chief Whip is discussing this matter with the other Whips, I am bound to say that the other Whips do not seem to have noticed. We have seen it in the newspapers. Does the Taoiseach envisage the Government's making any proposals to this committee in relation to the funding, structures and functions of local authorities?
Comment on this
Let us establish the committee first and give it terms of reference. That will be done almost immediately.
