Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I doubled-checked the following in the Statute Book and PPNs are knitted into the climate law that we passed last year. It seems to me that if PPNs are so under-resourced then there must be a reason. I am not criticising the Government when I say that the State generally has its own way of doing things. I mean that the State controls things and wants to continue doing so. As we have seen in our own neck of the woods in Limerick there has been huge resistance against having a directly elected mayor and that was local government reform. Seven or eight years ago the PPN structure was changed. Has that reform been embraced only very halfheartedly?

On funding being given to PPNs and the seriousness being given to consultation, and in local government, is it the experience of the witnesses that the State is paying lip service to it?