Joan Burton (Dublin West, Labour)

I have a further question on what is probably more hopeful legislation. The C list of the legislative programme features a proposal by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to introduce legislation to provide for a directly elected lord mayor of Dublin. He has indicated that the legislation may be available before Easter. The Minister, who proposes to run the election in June, downgraded the legislation to hopeful yesterday. In terms of the programme for Government what is the timescale for the legislation?

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