Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the alignment of the 52 local development companies with the local authorities, we have been held up in the European Court of Auditors report of 2010 as a model of best practice in the delivery of local development, using the bottom-up approach. Unfortunately, we are now dismantling this system and setting ourselves back 20 years. The dissolution of county and city enterprise boards Bill will dissolve the existing county enterprise board structures and establish local enterprise offices.

We have seen what happened with regard to the centralising of the processing of medical cards and student grants. This is the same thing. We are centralising-----

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