Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. The point is taken. I will take it back to the Minister. We in the Department are part of an oversight group together with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Local Government Management Agency, LGMA, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, Irish Water, the Irish Local Development Network, ILDN, Irish Rural Link, Chambers Ireland and there is a local enterprise office representative and the National Transport Authority, NTA, as well. We are all around the table and can bring issues like that up where it is ostensibly the role of one Department but really it impacts policy as a whole. It is important we maintain pressure on the local authority to recruit the regeneration officers as soon as possible because we need them on the ground as soon as possible.

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