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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)

Brian Stanley: What the Minister seems to be indicating is that there is a provision in the Bill for a local authority to subcontract its housing 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)

Brian Stanley: I know that. It is a technical amendment. I have no problem with that.

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)

Brian Stanley: I was just using the opportunity-----

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)

Brian Stanley: Is the Minister saying the 2001 Act could be flawed?

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)

Brian Stanley: With regard to fluoridation?

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)

Brian Stanley: I know it is not the Minister's fault, but-----

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)

Brian Stanley: I do not blame the Minister for everything.

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)

Brian Stanley: The result is that between the motor tax fund and the local government fund, what people are paying for is the extra 450 staff, the call centre and so forth, the installation of domestic meters and paying off debts. That is not bad from the car tax fund and the local government fund, but it is completely counter to what the Minister told us in the Chamber in the past two years about the...

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)

Brian Stanley: No. The Minister is giving himself leeway. What is happening is a three card trick.

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)

Brian Stanley: The chief executive has nearly €200,000 already.

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)

Brian Stanley: A sum of €200,000 has gone to the chief executive already.

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)

Brian Stanley: It is a scandal.

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)

Brian Stanley: The insertion of this new section is disappointing. In sound-bites in the Dáil chamber and outside it on the plinth the Minister and other spokespersons for the Government have over the past number of years trumpeted that the local property tax would be spent on local services. A new corporate entity has now been established. The Government promised to reduce quangos yet this mammy...

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)

Brian Stanley: I love paying it. I also love paying parking charges, commercial rates and so on. I always pay them on time and sometimes before they are due because I feel it is my duty to do so. If I go into a shop and ask for a sliced pan I do not expect to be handed a bottle of milk. I expect to get a sliced pan. What the Minister is doing by way of this provision is taking money from people under...

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)

Brian Stanley: It was misleading. The propaganda was that the property tax receipts would be spent on roads, footpaths and lighting. As the Minister was previously a member of a local authority, he will be aware that funding in this regard comes from the roads budget of every local authority.

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)

Brian Stanley: The hard pressed motorist, who in paying his or her car tax believes this is where the money is going. The Minister is now taking from the fund and using that money to erect meters outside people's homes so that he can impose another charge on them. What the Minister is proposing is very bad in terms of local government. It is odious and should not be included. It goes completely against...

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)

Brian Stanley: No more.

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)

Brian Stanley: There is a grouping system, but the Minister knows that where two positions-----

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)

Brian Stanley: A grouping system as set out in previous local government legislation will not stop this from happening. The two larger groups will grab the cake. Is the Labour Party happy with this? Would the Chairman be happy to let these boys take over everything in Cork?

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)

Brian Stanley: There will be more people in those authorities now.