John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

There is a substantive point. The Department issued a report on local government relatively recently and we discussed it the last time Mr. Watt appeared before the committee. We talked about the provision of services at a local level. The Department is dealing with that on an ongoing basis. The point that I and possibly others have made was whether a deficit exists after the abolition of town councils and whether this is being surveyed and monitored on an ongoing basis to see their grade and the level of services that exist now as opposed to previously. Has the Department done any work on that?