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Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...not, the mayor is going to have a role in this area. Why not give him or her this particular power in respect of the JPC? The amendment next states, "The Mayor shall have executive powers in the realm of waste management." As a trade unionist, this is something very close to my heart. My union and others have campaigned for this for years. I live in the small village of Castleconnell,...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...general who is, at the end of the day, an unelected official, and not to an elected and accountable person such as a mayor. In many of these, it is not just sections, it is the whole Act. Waste management was identified by Senator Gavan as an area in which there is lively and vibrant debate around re-municipalisation and different approaches. It has huge implications in terms of the...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...whole area of the appointment of a chair may be subject to regulation by the Minister. The new subsection (9) in amendment No. 11 proposes that the mayor shall have executive powers with regard to waste management. As set out in the general scheme of the Bill, all executive functions provided for under the Waste Management Act 1996, and all executive functions relating to waste and waste...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...interpretation of the plebiscite the Minister of State has included in this Bill is so conservative. If we were to ask the people of Limerick if they would like their mayor to tackle the issue of waste management, they would tell us that of course they would. The idea that it would instead lie with the director general, an unelected position, rather than with the democratically elected...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Paul Gavan: ...do such tremendous hard work. The Minister of State has again missed an opportunity. He seems to be stuck in a straitjacket that means we can only go so far and no further. Why should we leave waste management with the director general? We do not get to elect the director general. We will, in June, have the opportunity to elect the mayor and he or she should have the powers to deal...