Diarmuid Wilson (Fianna Fail)

On a number of occasions, I asked the Leader and Deputy Leader to invite the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to the House to discuss with him the reform of local government. He has failed to come in and it does not surprise me that Senator Landy must raise this subject again this morning. The Government and the Department have already decided on local government reform and do not care what we or the practitioners on the ground, the councillors, have to say about it.