Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the pilot, local authorities would not be willing to do something without departmental approval either. It is often the case, as much with the Central Bank as with the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, that the reluctance is when they are presented with a big, new initiative. Convincing them of the merits of that bigger initiative through the development of a pilot might be one approach to try to ease their concerns.