Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

I will take the final question first. The heads of the legislation pertaining to the Dublin mayoral election will come before the Cabinet before the end of the year and hopefully we will be able to facilitate the passage of the legislation fairly quickly. The Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill is before the Seanad at present and the Minister proposes to include therein some additional amendments to which he alluded in public. As for the final decision, Deputy Gilmore asked me a question in this regard yesterday. The Cabinet will make the decision. The Cabinet did not meet yesterday and will not meet again until next week. The Cabinet will decide what date the election or-----

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