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- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: I move amendment No. 14: In page 29, line 12, to delete “districts” and substitute “district councils”.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: I move amendment No. 15: In page 29, line 13, after “district” to insert “council”.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: I move amendment No. 16: In page 29, line 14, after “districts” to insert “or as municipal district councils”.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: This is the section that will see the town councils abolished. We went through the points on Second Stage and again yesterday. I do not want to labour the point, other than to say this is a mistake and a retrograde step. In my county of Cavan there will be 34 fewer local representatives to represent the people of the county. I do not believe this change should go ahead and that is the...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: Sponsored by-----
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: It will be Sinn Féin-Fine Gael.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: The Minister will be in Brussels.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: We did it and Deputy Hogan supported it.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: It was part of the Fine Gael manifesto in 1977. That is a fact.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: That document was never approved.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: That document to which the Minister refers was written by the former Minister, Noel Dempsey, but it was never approved by any parliamentary party that I belong to. It is a fictional document, in so far as I am concerned.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: It is a fictional document because it was never approved by any parliamentary party that I belong to.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: It would not be the first document flashed about by Fine Gael that was not genuine.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: The Minister is trying to muddy the waters here by talking about abolishing rates in 1977 which was part of the Fianna Fáil manifesto. I agree it was part of the manifesto and that it happened but it should not have happened. It was the wrong decision. However, I remind the Minister that as part of the Fine Gael manifesto in 1977 - an actual official document - Fine Gael proposed the...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: It would take an extra 12 months-----
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: Let us put the record straight. It was part of the Fine Gael manifesto for the general election of 1977. It does not make it any better because that should not have happened and it was wrong that it happened. There have been difficulties as a result. No one on this side of the House is saying that there have not been difficulties. As has been pointed out here by many colleagues and...
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Minister for his admission.
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: What planet is the Minister on?
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: I seek clarification from the Minister that elected representatives can be on the local development committees. Is it still the case that the chief executive or manager of the council will select the elected members to sit on this particular committee?
- Seanad: Local Government Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Dec 2013)
Diarmuid Wilson: That is not the case.