Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is the law and it was the Minister who introduced it. I am pointing out what the law is and before it was changed, people from the Gaeltacht elected the person.

My point in regard to RAPID is that if LCDCs, which represent the whole of a city, have responsibility for these matters, we do not get the focused, concentrate input that is needed from the people who live in highly disadvantaged areas. Incidentally, to return to the famous national planning framework, we keep receiving paperwork showing how successful cities are. I could show the Minister parts of Dublin, Limerick and other cities where people living in the most isolated rural areas would not be willing to move, unfortunately. We will return to that issue on another day.