Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I move amendment No. 59:

In page 11, line 25, to delete “the Agency” and substitute “local authorities”.

I will not waste much time on this group of amendments. They are just making the point about the Land Development Agency, LDA, stripping local authorities of their functions. It is part of our wider and interconnected critique of this entire Bill in that we think that is precisely what the Land Development Agency is doing. It is stripping local authorities of functions they should have. The Government is committed to this and, as I was saying at the previous meeting, I am on quite a losing streak with my amendments, as are many of the Opposition. They are out of scope unless we can convince the Government the Land Development Agency is fundamentally misconceived, which it appears we cannot. I will make that point and probably withdraw these amendments.