Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

This is about delegation of functions of the directly elected mayor to the director general. This part of the Bill is highly problematic. We have discussed why we do not have the full detail on it, which is because Schedule 1 is still being worked on. We are in situation where the directly- elected mayor for Limerick is already going to have very limited powers. This section allows him or her to delegate a number of those powers back to the director general. I cannot understand why this would be put in legislation. I cannot think of a comparison on this in terms of other elected offices. Deputies and councillors do not have this provision where they get elected into office and they can just delegate a whole load of powers back to the director-----