Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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What the Minister said sounds very good, that the first thing that will happen in future for any new functions or bodies will be to see whether they can operate under the local government system. Councillors are very concerned, with good reason, that the new districts would not become another area committee. Some of them are very large and should be called district councils to give them their proper title and status. In some cases these districts are half a county, for example in Carlow and Leitrim, and a third of a county in the case of Laois and other counties.