Mr. David Branagan:

In Fingal, as I mentioned, we are looking for a bit more clarity around the role and where it might fit in with local authorities. As a citizen and resident in Fingal, born and bred, I have been able to see the advantages of having Fingal County Council be one of the more progressive councils over the last number of years. A lot of our members would echo that and we do not want to undermine some of the fantastic work it has done. Ms AnnMarie Farrelly, the chief executive, has been before the committee in the past and has spoken about the capital programmes in the pipeline, and how they want to make sure they are still able to deliver at a local level in Fingal. As I mentioned in our statement, one of the areas we have concerns around is avoiding being Dublin-centric. Also, if we are to support this in the end then we must try to map that out and see how it fits in the system.