Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

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

Ms Noelle O'Connor:

In the assembly, when we talked about a plebiscite a lot of people discussed the powers we wanted to be devolved. We wanted people to have a say in that. A lot of people are not aware of what local government does or that representatives work part-time. We felt that by holding a plebiscite, we would give people the opportunity to be educated on that and see exactly what they vote for every couple of years.