Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-12
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

It probably would be an unfair characterisation to say the task force is full of insiders. The Minister of State has just informed me that about five councillors are on the task force. They were nominated by the representative bodies of councillors. There will be a serious, genuine and substantive look at the issue. It will then fall to the Government to act on the report. As I have said, I would like to see this happen in new areas where there has been significant growth in population and in historic areas where people were very aggrieved by the removal of the borough councils. As I say, whatever happens will have to be integrated into the area council format or will have to take cognisance of that. The latter is something I am sure the task force is looking at as well.

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Sitting date: 2025-11-12