463 Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in terms of local government reform his plans to re-balance the executive functions of city and county management and transfer powers to elected members of the city and county councils; if it is his intention to provide elected members of local authorities with proper revenue raising powers and thus enhance the democratic accountability of the executive functions of city and county councils; his plans to pursue a more streamlined version of local government where a town or borough council may be subsumed into the structure of city and county councils thereby no longer functioning as separate entities; the estimated savings such amalgamations would yield for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4012/12]

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463 Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in terms of local government reform his plans to re-balance the executive functions of city and county management and transfer powers to elected members of the city and county councils; if it is his intention to provide elected members of local authorities with proper revenue raising powers and thus enhance the democratic accountability of the executive functions of city and county councils; his plans to pursue a more streamlined version of local government where a town or borough council may be subsumed into the structure of city and county councils thereby no longer functioning as separate entities; the estimated savings such amalgamations would yield for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4012/12]

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