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16th October 2012 The Government today launched an action plan for the most fundamental improvements to the local government system in over one hundred years....

A comprehensive Action Programme to bring about the most fundamental improvements to the local government system in over one hundred years was launched today (16.10.2012) by...

Reforming local Government is about solving problems and providing services that have a direct impact on all of our lives. We need local Government to be more democratic and more responsive, and we need that reform to happen while at the same...

Welcome everyone to Dublin Castle. It is noteworthy that we are here in the former home of governance in Ireland to launch one of the most radical, ambitious and far reaching governance reform plans ever put forward by an Irish Government...

As part of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan’s Action Programme for Local Government Reform, Putting People First, Local Authorities will have a new enhanced role in Local Economic Development...

“One of the key elements of ‘Putting People First’, the forthcoming Action Programme for Effective Local Government, will be a refocusing and re-invigoration of local authorities’ work in support of enterprise, business and job creation” said Phil Hogan TD...