Time for some expansive thinking

In the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government’s Action Programme for Effective Local Government, Putting People First 2012, it states that “there would, accordingly, appear to be a good case in principle for considering a boundary alteration in Cork with a view to creating a wider Cork Metropolitan area.

“The initiative in this regard rests primarily with the local authorities. It is envisaged that if suitable arrangements are not finalised within a maximum of five years, the power of ministerial initiative would be invoked.”

Thus by 2017 the new arrangements should become clear, at the latest.