Dundalk councillor calls the Land Development Agency Bill a direct attack on Local Government Democracy
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Councillor Emma Coffey has called the Land Development Agency Bill a direct attack on Local Government Democracy.
Cllr Coffey at the Louth County Council meeting held last week raised her grave concerns about Section 49 and 56 of the Land Development Agency Bill, which with the stroke of a pen removes the County Councillor’s democratic powers and imposes an unprecedented obligation on a democratically elected individual Local Authority Member to co-operate with this new body.
Speaking about these issues in the Chamber Councillor Coffey stated: “There has never been any legislation which obliges an individual Councillor to co-operate with a body outside of her or his local authority.