Mr. Martin Hoey:

One important aspect of the directly-elected mayor for PPNs especially, because there are four PPNs in the Dublin area, is how we are going to interact with the mayor. At the moment each PPN would work with its current mayor and its current council. If there was one super mayor overall, would there be four deputies, one in each council area, to work with us? I cannot see how one person would have enough time to deal with everybody and to come to every council meeting, to meet the PPN and anything else that goes on. I would look at how this would work for us because we are the public participation networks for the areas. We talk to the people, then come back and go to the SPCs and the like. We need to have that value there so that whoever the directly-elected mayor will be, will actually have the time or the method put in to engage with us.