Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Far from adopting a passive approach, I assure the Deputy and the House that both my Department and I continue to actively engage and work closely with the authority to enable it to enter substantive regulatory mode at the earliest opportunity, with appropriate staffing levels and project management. The authority, in turn, is working to progress, in conjunction with my Department, the identification of and elaboration on the more specific delivery dates concerned. I expect these to apply to the respective functions involved during the remainder of the year and into the early part of 2018. I do not wish to pre-empt the authority's independent planning and the completion of its commencement programme, but I do expect the relevant details to become available very soon. If there are members of the public who have a concern, as outlined to the House by the Deputy, about the public workings of the authority to date, I remind the public through the Deputy that information is available on the authority's website atwww.lsra.ie.

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