Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On Committee Stage we spoke briefly about this in the sense that rather than the existing annual report one would have, there could be measurements of success and failures further to the plan being put in place at the beginning of the year in the first instance. Will the Minister confirm that this will amount to much more than what is currently the case? How will performance be measured and will the Department have a mechanism to review and inspect the performance of a local authority over five years, for example? If there are trends emanating, what reportage will feed back from the Department to the Oireachtas or local authorities?

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