Dan Boyle (Cork South Central, Green Party)
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Question 266: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if members of a town council are obliged to receive regular written reports on works undertaken by the overseeing county council in its administrative area. [11365/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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While there is no specific legislative provision obliging county councils to provide town authorities with such reports, one of the objectives of the Local Government Act 2001 was to strengthen town local government and provide for linkage and co-operation with the county in the delivery of more integrated and improved service to the public for both the town and its surrounding areas.

A town council has specific opportunities to be informed of activities undertaken by the county council in the administrative area of the town council through statutory membership by its cathaoirleach of the relevant county council area committee and through participation by town council members on strategic policy committees, SPCs. Given that the county manager has responsibility for the borough and town councils within the administrative area of the county, I consider it good practice that town councils are supplied with relevant information along the lines suggested.