Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister and appreciate his reply. I will revert to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. As I said, we need that diversity in these teams on our local authorities and there is a question as to how we should spend public money. This is a huge sum of public money and it will be transformative in this country.

We have an issue with how we fill those posts. A person can get a level 9 qualification in sustainable transport, for example, but if he or she does not have a level 8 qualification in engineering, the person will not get a role on one of these active travel teams. Somebody with that level 9 qualification would be certainly more qualified than I would be with my level 8 in mechanical engineering, so we should seek to ensure these people will fill these important roles that will transform our towns, villages and cities.

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