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. Frank Curran:

Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked how we deal with the mayor's office. I presume we deal with it in the same way we deal with the likes of the NTA now. It is looking at active travel, BusConnects and taxi regulation across the Dublin region and allocates funding to all of us. If that power is transferred to the mayor, assembly, cabinet and the mayor's office, I presume they will control the budget and we would apply for funding. We would work with them on BusConnects and taxi regulation, and potentially even the delivery of a metro. Is that power really going to transfer from the NTA and Transport Infrastructure Ireland to a mayor? Time will tell. As I say, we work with 29 different agencies as it is so working with a mayor's office would not be a whole lot different.

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