An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-18
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Brian Leddin (GP), Limerick City

As the Taoiseach will be aware, in 2019 there were plebiscites in his home city of Cork and in Waterford and Limerick with respect to bringing in legislation for directly elected mayors for the cities. Cork and Waterford did not decide to go ahead with this but Limerick did. We are three and a half years on but there is no sight of the legislation. It seems that it has been deprioritised. The Taoiseach mentioned earlier that planning legislation is critically important for climate, energy and transport and so on, and I understand there are legislative priorities, but this should also be a priority because it is a critically important reform of local government. When we get it - it is a matter of "when" - it should be meaningful reform in that the directly elected mayor of Limerick should have real powers. When will we get this legislation?

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Sitting date: 2022-10-18