Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Section 221 provides that, no later than 30 June each year, every local authority and city council shall prepare and adopt a report which shall include particulars of policies, programmes, services and other activities undertaken by the council. The local authority will report directly to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on this issue. I very much recognise that a large number of local authority workers are members of the Civil Defence and give generously of their spare time and effort to come out whenever required, as do all the volunteers involved.