Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Equally the Deputy must take my bona fides on it. I am trying to work on this. The Deputy is correct that we have to get this right. There will be a review mechanism and I have seen that many of the moves to a directly elected mayor have failed because they have gone too quickly. I want to look at section 18 in the context of the mayor being consulted on the appointment of the four staff from within the local authority to the mayoral office. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan made a valid point on this. I want to go look at this with the officials from the Department.