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)
Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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I see what will happen with rural Independent Deputies down the road. This will go to the people of Dublin and they will vote in the plebiscite, which is great. Then there is the financing and everything which flows from that. My apologies for cutting across Mr. O'Leary, but then rural Independent Deputies will say "Look at the Dubs, they are getting everything for themselves", "Who are they?" and everything else. It will then become a political football. How do we overcome that?