Ms AnnMarie Farrelly:

I think one needs to take the areas proposed to transfer and look at the interdependency. What is the interreliance at a Dublin level, and what areas connect up? Transport is a very broad term. Someone mentioned traffic earlier, and street cleanliness. One needs to pick out from within those areas of responsibility what is better done at a Dublin city and regional level. There is a world of difference in scale between transport and the night-time economy. One is looking at being more precise about what the mayor should do for transport, policing and education, rather than the broad stroke of saying everything to do with education transfers over. For example, for education, it might be to do with the provision of schools in Dublin city and county, and where those sites should be to meet the growing population. There might be distinct powers within those subject areas that could transfer quickly.