John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The members of the committee will come proportionately from the two local electoral areas in question. It will not be up to the ruling groups on the council as a whole. It will be up to the local councillors who are elected in those areas. If these committees are to mean anything, they cannot have members from 40 miles away who do not represent the areas in question.