County seeks legal advice on city limits

Cork County Council is seeking legal advice to prevent the Mackinnon report’s recommendation to massively extend the city boundary.

Also, in an effort to delay the report’s implementation, the county council is proposing to use Section 29 of the Local Government Act 1991 as a stalling instrument.

This enables it to put its own views on the city boundary extension out to public consultation via a statutory function, which is allowed under the Local Government Act, and means the city council has up to six months to reply to the offer that the county council has already put on the table.