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- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: May I speak?
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Yes.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Bus shelters.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Small bus shelters.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: They are not allowed to do it.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: One has to go through the National Transport Authority to apply for the bus shelter. The list is drawn up by the senior executives in the National Transport Authority. I am not casting any aspersions on them but they are remote from where the bus stop is needed. If the bus stop is needed in Urlingford or Castletown, the councillors need to be able to make that decision. It is not...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 7:In page 29, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: "CHAPTER 1 Community CouncilsCommunity councils 19. The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following Part after Part 3: "PART 3A COMMUNITY COUNCILS22A. (1) Every city and county council shall designate community council areas throughout its local authority area. (2) The community councils would be on...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: The Minister is overstating the role of what is being proposed here. I accept his statement that he will await the feedback from the working group. While I welcome that, I appeal to him to try to give due recognition to the voluntary groups. They are haphazard at present and some of them do not have a uniform system for how they are elected or to establish their mandate. That must be...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 20:In page 40, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“(2) Each municipal district may in respect of that district set the commercial rate based on profits in the previous year. This should be part of the calculation along with valuation.”.As we heard a Member on the government benches say this morning, there are two economies. The economic...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: We always do. We are very sharp on that.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I will press the amendment. The Minister mentioned rates. County managers and councillors have been exercised about the local government fund this week. As late as this morning, I was contacted by people in local government circles who were concerned that they had not received notification of next year's allocations. They are trying to frame their budgets. They would normally have...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: It is normally by the end of November or the first week of December. The point of this amendment relates to the Minister's point, in that there will be small towns with low levels of business and footfall. There may also be other socio-economic issues. The same applies in the cities. We need to make such places more attractive, in turn creating a positive cycle for those areas that are...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: My amendment No. 30 seeks to insert the following wording in page 47, between lines 9 and 10: “(i) to co-ordinate cross-Border work tackling social exclusion, including long term unemployment and seeking support for cross-Border, cross-community initiatives.”. The Minister will be aware that much good work has been done by the Border corridor groups. Partnerships have been...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: No. I will take what the Minister has said in good faith. I ask him to bear it in mind at a later stage.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I move amendment No. 36:In page 61, after line 44, to insert the following:“(9) The role of Chief Executive shall be reviewed within one year of the enactment of the Local Government Reform Act 2013 with a view to maximising recalibration of power to elected members.”.”.The amendment proposes that the role of the chief executive would be reviewed. I welcome the fact that...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I welcome what the Minister said. I suggest that the Joint Committee on the Environment, Community and the Gaeltacht would be briefed by the AMAI-new entity - we will have to come up with a new name for it - and County Managers' Association at the end of the year on how, from both points of view, the legislation is working.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: On the basis of the Minister's commitment today, I will withdraw the amendment.
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I, too, welcome the Minister's commitment on this matter. Sinn Féin was concerned that membership of the CPG could include a person who had not even received one vote while five or six councillors, who between them may have obtained 10,000 or 15,000 votes, could not attend a CPG meeting. Amendment No. 38 seeks the inclusion of the words "political grouping and non-aligned...
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: I am still not clear on what the Minister's intention is in respect of amendment No. 38. Is he saying that he will introduce a provision to deal with the issue? If left up to the local authorities, this will be addressed under the grouping system, which system-----
- Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (11 Dec 2013)
Brian Stanley: Okay.