Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I oppose the amendment to reduce the threshold, given that we had specific discussions on it. Another part of that discussion was the point that Deputy Quinlivan touched on. We do not have this process of impeachment in our Irish system so we can only look to where it exists, and the system in the United States is probably the most obvious example. There are consequences for councillors for taking out a popular mayor. The difficulty is that this process does not give consequences to the councillors because the ultimate decision is made by the Minister. Am I correct in that?