Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I met the president of the Association of Irish Local Government, AILG, and his team yesterday and committed to holding quarterly meetings with them. Part of this relates to the engagement with councillors to provide core support to them in order that they will be aware of all the issues they can respond to in the chamber, which are very extensive at this time. The Office of the Planning Regulator provides courses for planning matters. One is taking place this week and there is ongoing engagement with councillors on that matter. I look forward to supporting the AILG. We can raise this issue with it and see what support we can provide it to outline to councillors the powers of the Act and their capacity to incentivise change or create waivers that will underwrite the county development plans they are currently producing.