Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

On that issue, and this question has come up a few times, does Ms Henchy believe that once there is an understanding of what will be coming at the local authorities - because it will not be possible to know that until it happens - that the Department will be able to provide required resources to the local authorities, even if it will not have an open chequebook? If that is not going to be the case, however, there will be massive problems with this process in the context of the short time that people will have to process information with a lack of resources. I am not going to say that the result will be bad decisions, but there will be rushed decisions and further information will be required. It seems like someone should be ensuring that the local authorities are resourced in this regard, because this change is coming quickly.