Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government
Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage
3:35 pm
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Hold on a second. A local authority could have four or five people from smaller parties and two or three Independent members. Offaly County Council has 19 members so it could have a grouping of six or seven who will have no representation on the regional authority.
The same could apply in Laois or Kilkenny. Is the Minister happy about this?