Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of the points that was referenced by Senator Fitzpatrick was the 25 directly elected mayors. I would be anxious that when we discuss that, we talk about both directly elected mayors and local government reform. There is a view that directly elected mayors are the only show in town when it comes to local government reform. We need to make sure we reform the base level before we put directly elected mayors on top of that. We should try to expand that topic to that of local government reform as well.