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Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The numbers that will change in the orders I have signed will reflect the size of the local authority in terms of population. It will mean that in the case of a great many local authorities there will be more than two representatives. In other words, only a small number of local authorities will have two representatives. The idea that a political party or Independents will not be...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The Deputy did not do too badly.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: That is personal.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The core strategies we are adopting as part of the planning Acts will deal with the Deputy's concerns about planning matters. Equally, we have amended the corruption Acts to deal with the issues arising from the various tribunals to ensure that if people are caught, they will face a much more severe penalty than in the past. If I am devolving responsibility to elected members who have a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The councillors. It is their function.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I assure the councillor that we have a provision in the legislation-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: God be with the days when we were on the council together. I assure the Deputy that there is a provision in the legislation to bring forward the election date in order that a mayor can be directly elected earlier than 2019.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: If that is what the Government chooses. There is more than one person around the Cabinet table.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 58: In page 44, line 18, to delete "regional planning guidelines" and substitute "regional spatial and economic strategy".

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 59: In page 44, lines 28 and 29, to delete "regional planning guidelines" and substitute "regional spatial and economic strategy".

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 69: In page 50, to delete lines 35 to 41, and in page 51, to delete lines 1 to 5 and substitute the following:"(c) a municipal district contains the area of a town (including all the environs of the town for the purposes of the census of population concerned) the population of which, when rounded to the nearest 1,000 as shown in the latest census report of the Central...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: Local enterprise offices will largely be executive offices within local authorities. They will perform functions on behalf of Enterprise Ireland under the cover of service level agreements. The directorate of economic development in each local authority area will be chaired by a local councillor. The reporting structures that will apply to the local enterprise offices and the strategic...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: Unlike the county enterprise boards, the local enterprise offices will not have a board structure. Each of them will be an executive office responsible for implementing the policy decisions made by the economic development directorate in the relevant local authority. That directorate will be chaired by a councillor and will be representative of a significant number of local elected members.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 72: In page 54, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(c) Where any refusal or failure by a public authority is reported to a local authority under paragraph (b), then the local authority may report such refusal or failure, together with any explanation furnished by the public authority, to any Minister of the Government—(i) on whom functions...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The strategic policy committees are obliged in any case to be consistent with the economic strategy of the appropriate regional assembly. While the Deputy's concern in these matters is sometimes well-founded, the legal advice available to me is that there is sufficient control in place and the requirement to "have regard to" the requirements of the development plan, regional plan and...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I will examine the possibility of tabling an amendment on the regional spatial economic strategy when we are preparing amendments under the local economic and community plan for the Seanad.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 74: In page 54, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following: “Area committees 41. The Principal Act is amended by substituting the following for section 50:“50. (1) A local authority to which this section applies may establish by resolution a committee in respect of a local electoral area or of 2 or more adjoining such areas or any other area in its...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: The four mayors of the four Dublin local authorities are considering this matter in the context of the new directly elected mayor for Dublin. We have also asked them how they envisage local government in general developing in the municipal district concept. I have an open mind on how the system will operate. It appears, however, that the geographical entity we are seeking to create in a...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I move amendment No. 75: In page 56, line 40, to delete “approved as a reserved function” and substitute “(being a policy approved as a reserved function)”.This is a technical amendment, which clarifies the intention that the chief executive must advise the elected council, when requested or on his or her own initiative if this is appropriate, to review any policy...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Bill 2013: Committee Stage (3 Dec 2013)

Phil Hogan: I thank Deputies Catherine Murphy and Brian Stanley for their amendments. Deputy Murphy is correct that there is a danger of corporate policy groups becoming unwieldy. The unintended consequence of the amendment would be that it would remove the requirement that chairpersons of strategic policy committees, SPCs, be members of a corporate policy group, CPG. As the corporate policy group has...