Mr. Adrian Geissel:

I would see some of the answers coming out of the decision-making process that gave birth to Fingal County Council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and South Dublin County Council, from what was once a much larger Dublin Corporation. Taking the south Dublin view, and I am sure it may be echoed, it has been beneficial for the county. It has an identity, infrastructure, a community and a vibrancy as mentioned earlier that is positive. If we try to amalgamate that back in, how do we ensure the priorities and decision-making within the mayoral office is an all-county issue?

This is part of the concerns that we have. If that can be sorted, then yes absolutely, but at the moment we have local government that is working for the local in the context of its neighbourhood.