Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the extent to which the traditional services provided by local authorities are likely to continue in the context of the reform of local government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5965/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Action Programme for Effective Local Government , which sets out Government decisions on local government reform, has affirmed, in paragraph 4 .3.1, that, with the exception of functions relating to water supply that will be assumed by Irish Water and certain functions relating to river basin management planning that will be transferred from local authorities to the EPA, the functions that have hitherto been performed by local authorities will continue to be exercised by them.