Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have not been given a briefing note. I do not have an issue with most of the amendments but if we had been provided with a briefing, we might have had an opportunity to elaborate on or discuss the fact that we are again facilitating moneys coming from the disposal of directed assets and so forth going to the LDA. One of the gaps, which will come up repeatedly in the debate on the directly elected mayor, is the question of resources, including at local and local authority levels. This is a set of measures relating to funding going to the LDA, assets being disposed of and other matters.It would have been a potential opportunity for some form of stream of revenue or some signal in terms of increasing or supporting the resources potentially available at local level. Because we are only getting the detail of it now I am only looking to highlight it and am not trying to amend those mechanisms. It is something to highlight because I know we are going to end up discussing the need for resources so that this mayor can actually effect impact, yet the financial measures that are being added in are all working around local authorities rather than through them.