With regard to the alignment of the 52 local development companies with the local authorities, we have been held up in the European Court of Auditors report of 2010 as a model of best practice in the delivery of local development, using the bottom-up approach. Unfortunately, we are now dismantling this system and setting ourselves back 20 years. The dissolution of county and city enterprise boards Bill will dissolve the existing county enterprise board structures and establish local enterprise offices.

We have seen what happened with regard to the centralising of the processing of medical cards and student grants. This is the same thing. We are centralising-----

Deputy, you may put down a parliamentary question. The Tánaiste may give you information about the legislation.

That Bill is due to be published next year. This is all part of the reform of local government, which the Government is undertaking. It will be the first major reform of local government since the end of the 19th century.

The Government is banishing local democracy.

Reform is always difficult but it is something we are committed to see through.

Their opinion of themselves is unreal.

Big Phil is destroying it.

It is a gerrymander for the Labour Party. They will have eight seaters to protect their local electoral seats.