Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

In the run-in from September to Christmas to the budget of the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, will the Minister be prepared to support local authorities, such as the one in my constituency, Fingal County Council, that request funding to implement the by-laws in respect of certain craft? Will the Minister and the Department support them in administering that because we are talking about somebody in a car on the bank of a river or lake trying to invigilate an operator misbehaving and causing damage to other users of the facility by driving the craft at speed? Will we be able to support good local authorities who bring forward by-laws in response to this Bill?

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