Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion

Mr. Colm Ward:

There is a table in the report that outlines 21 different areas of responsibility, and the views of the citizens' assembly with regard to the timeframes for delivery, and the percentages that people thought could be delivered within five years. It starts with housing, and is followed by homelessness. Transport is way down the pecking order so it gives the Deputy some sense of the challenges in even defining it. I would say that strategic housing delivery, and the influence and pushing of that, is really important. It is done on a regional basis anyway and could reasonably be ceded to a mayor quite quickly with regard to the influence of it, and the delivery and implementation of it at local level.

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