Strategic Policy
Committees
Section 48 of the Local Government
Act, 2001 as amended provided for the establishment of Strategic
Policy Committees. A new SPC Scheme was adopted in September 2019
following the 2019 Local Elections. Leitrim County Council has
established 3 SPC’s as follows:
·
Planning,
Economic Development and Infrastructure Strategic Policy
Committee
·
Housing,
Community and Culture Strategic Policy Committee
·
Environment, Climate
Action and Agriculture Strategic Policy Committee
Each SPC consists of six (6) Elected
Members and four (4) nominees from sectoral interests. The Council
is and remains the decision making Authority, and it is the task of
the SPCs, as committees of the Council, to advise and assist the
Council in the formulation, development and review of policy. The
SPC system is intended to give Elected Members and relevant
Sectoral Interests an opportunity for full involvement in the
policy making process from the early stages.
Each SPC is chaired by an Elected
Member of Leitrim County Council and is assisted by a Director of
Services.