Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We discussed these amendments extensively on Committee Stage. We will not move any of them, but they speak to a general point about the exclusion of members of a local authority. From the perspective of the Government, we have raised the point that the continued exclusion of local authority members from a range of roles and boards is not acceptable. We have made that point in the context of other legislation but we will not press the amendments in this case.