Mr. Jim Gavin:

I know the Deputy is from Wicklow. This is not Dublin going against Wicklow town, or Limerick, Cork or Waterford, or Donegal town or Belfast or anywhere else in between. This is about Dublin competing against Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris, you name it. That is what we are trying to do here.

In terms of the services, Ms O'Connor and I learned that local authorities provide more than 1,000 services. That is phenomenal work that we just did not realise went on.

Regarding the recommendations, I would compare it to us providing the parts of an aircraft - the wings, fuselage, horizontal stabiliser, and the pilot and copilot in the figures of the mayor and deputy mayor. It is up to the Government and the Civil Service to put it all together and get it flying. I cannot give any finer detail on that. I will hand over to Mr. O'Leary to talk about the plebiscite.