Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Establishment of Planning Regulator: Discussion with Minister of State

3:20 pm

Photo of Luke FlanaganLuke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent)
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I have one final question. The Minister of State raised a point about how county councillors and Deputies must register their interests. How rigorous is that system? In the past month, I made a complaint to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges about a Member of the Dáil which was investigated, and the conclusion was more or less that the Member forgot to put it in. When I sent the report to the Standards in Public Office Commission, it told me that as the person is not an officeholder, the matter does not concern the commission. I am a little confused about it.