Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Seamus Healy (IND), Tipperary South

I appreciate the response. I acknowledge and fully accept the Taoiseach’s personal support for the re-establishment of town and borough councils. He has outlined that to me previously in response to a parliamentary question. He also expanded on that in a feature in the Irish Examiner shortly afterwards. However, there are very serious concerns that the whole task force process is being controlled by insiders in the Department and in local government and that we will end up with a proposal that will tinker around the edges and that will involve no real reform and no re-establishment of the borough and town councils. I am asking the Taoiseach to intervene with the task force to ensure that we see the re-establishment of borough and town councils and, indeed, the creation of new councils for towns that have grown and expanded in the past number of years.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12