Mr. Paul Taylor:

Mr. Geoghegan has spoken about some of the things I want to speak about. I concur with Senator Boyhan and Mr. Geoghegan on many of the issues. We are at the early stages of the plans and we have no delivery on certain aspects of those plans yet. I agree with Ms Clarke that councillors are key locally. The expansion and strengthening of local authority functions in development has had the opposite effect for the elected members. Those who sit on SPCs and LCDCs probably only make up 20% to 30%. It limits the participation of elected members and therefore limits accountability and transparency.

We are talking about building economies and everything.