Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment no. 12:

In page 15, line 23, to delete “The director general” and substitute “The Mayor in consultation with the director general”.

The rationale for this amendment is that on Second Stage, our party leader, Deputy Bacik, quoted from an editorial by our colleague, Limerick City Councillor, Connor Sheehan, who argued that this legislation must create a real and substantive role for a directly elected mayor. While we are all grateful to the public servants who work in local authorities and elsewhere, the role of mayor is a political role. That is the justification.

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