Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As an Oireachtas committee, we constantly try to engage with members through the local authority members associations, AILG and LAMA, and with the CCMA. It is obvious that the resources available to the CCMA are far greater than those available to the secretariats of the representative bodies of councillors. As Mr. McCarthy said, we are increasingly dealing with those bodies to input into national policy. We need more resources for AILG and LAMA to allow them express the views of their members across the country.