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November 23

Irish regional assemblies

After reading [1], [2], and [3], I think the regional assemblies basically oversee economic planning and economic-development schemes, but is that basically it? And do they have any authority over things like taxation and regional policy, or do they merely implement other jurisdictions' decisions? I get the impression that they have much less authority than the UK's devolved parliaments, and that they're a good deal more similar to the Regions of France, but I'm not sure. Note that we have an article on the former Regional Authorities in Ireland, but Regional Assemblies in Ireland redirects to an article about statistical regions, not administrative entities; if someone could write a basic article about them, that would be helpful. Nyttend (talk) 15:16, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You may have more luck posting this at Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland. Alansplodge (talk) 19:53, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This site [4] summarises the roles of the Regional Assemblies, and gives links to the acts which established them if you want to read more details. Wymspen (talk) 22:42, 23 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]