Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In that case, the Minister will know this because amendments Nos. 5 to 13, inclusive, have the same wording; they seek to replace every single reference to the “local authority chief executive” with the proposal that it be the elected council "in consultation with the Stakeholder and Community Group”. The amendments propose to take the decision-making process out of the hands of the chief executive officer and put it into the hands of the elected members.