Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is fine. One of the findings was that we restore and underpin confidence and transparency in the local government system and according to the then Minister of State, Jan O'Sullivan, that reform was going to be swift and emphatic. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme of March 2022 and the systemic failures uncovered revealed false accounting and employee fraud. Instead of transparency and reform, the programme found question marks and secrecy. Does Mr. Doyle agree that the power local authorities have is immense and that the public must have confidence in the local authority system?