Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----and who are not resourced. I examined this many years ago and I produced a document entitled Better Local Government. My suggestion at that stage, which I believe is the genesis of a good idea but it has never been implemented in the way I envisaged, was that the strategic policy committee, SPC, be chaired by an elected councillor. For example, in housing, the SPC would be chaired by a councillor who would be the effective minister for housing for the locality. It would not be the housing officer making the presentation at the monthly meeting but the chair of the SPC. The housing officer would be-----