Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It goes to the contributory principle around taxation. People feel much more positively disposed towards spending their taxation if they can see the effects of it in their local environment. Local authorities have a crucial role to play in this. Collaboration is very important to avoid creating a structure where it feels like it is where good ideas go to die. There are plenty of examples of community engagement where the boxes are ticked but it moves on and it is not really open. It sounds very much like that what is happening in Roscommon is meaningful engagement with the local community and it is beginning to show results.

This has been a very useful engagement. This concludes the committee's business in public session. I thank all of the witnesses for their contributions. I propose that the committee goes into private session to consider other business. Is that agreed? Agreed.