Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion

Mr. Richard Shakespeare:

Strong engagement with the Electoral Commission will be required in determining how to frame this and what information would be needed so that it is not just a binary "Yes" or "No". The Electoral Commission would be better placed than my colleagues and I would be. As with anything, the case needs to be set out, for and against, to get a balanced view and give people enough information. It does not need to be a tome, but outlining what the realistic impacts might be would be a good start. I suggest that the Electoral Commission needs to be heavily involved in it.