The new Minister for the Department of Local Government and the Environment says it is too early to start thinking about changes to local government.
The issue is widely seen as making the office of Minister at DOLGE something of a poison chalice.
John Shimmin (pictured) says a number of key decisions will have to be made by the Council of Ministers in the short term, but planning issues on the Island will be top of the agenda:
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