Clare County Council

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Clare County Council is responsible for the administrative area of County Clare. The council is responsible for the provision of a number of important services. These are delivered through eight programme groups:

    Housing and Building
    Road Transportation and Safety
    Water Supply and Sewerage (Water Services)
    Development Incentives and Control
    Environmental Protection
    Recreation and Amenity
    Agriculture, Education, Health and Welfare
    Miscellaneous

In the provision of these services Clare County Council play a key role in community development, with the services interacting with each other and with services provided by other agencies to aid development in the following sectors:

    Economic – through provision of roads, water and sewerage, industrial sites, urban renewal, waste management
    Social – housing, community activities
    Environmental – pollution prevention, waste management, water services
    Infrastructure provision and operation / maintenance – roads, water services, housing
    Tourism development, amenities, heritage, arts and culture – open spaces, amenities, libraries, heritage, museum, arts activities
    Consumer protection – fire service, road safety, civil defence, building regulation, development control, other regulatory codes.

Under the Local Government Act 2001 each local authority has an elected council with members known as councillors who are elected every five years. In Clare County Council there are 28 councillors or elected members who are elected from 4 local electoral areas.

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