Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that the Local Authority Members Association, LAMA, is invited to attend the local government review committee, which is being run by his Department on an ongoing basis. [18162/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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In 2015, a process was established by my predecessor to review the operation of the revised local government structures. This involved a broadly based Advisory Group , consisting of members appointed in a personal capacity rather than as representatives of particular organisations, and a Local Government Forum for engagement with the Association of Irish Local Government, which is the statutorily recognised body to represent the collective interests of local authorities.

I will consider the question of a role for these groups in the development of potential measures regarding local government reform arising from the Programme for Partnership Government. Subject to decisions in this regard, it would be open to the Advisory Group and the Forum to engage with representatives of the Local Authority Members’ Association in a stakeholder capacity, where appropriate having regard to the different roles of that Association and the Association of Irish Local Government , as set out in sections 225 and 226 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended by section 56 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014.