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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: All I am saying is that the point-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The substantive issue is that on both sides we want to get to a point where the mayor would be involved and that staff would be appointed who the mayor would be comfortable with.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 14: In page 16, to delete lines 10 to 13. These amendments are linked and relate to the ethics framework which should apply to the special adviser to the mayor. As it stands, the Bill provides for a different ethics framework for the mayor than for the special adviser. The mayor is subject to the ethics framework in Part 15 of the Local Government Act 2001, while...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 15: In page 16, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(a) in section 13, by the insertion, after subsection (1), of the following subsections: “(1A) Subject to subsection (2), a person to whom subsection (1) applies, other than a person referred to in paragraph (b) or (e) of that subsection, is disqualified from being elected to the office...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 16: In page 16, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(c) in section 128A, by the substitution, in the definition of “chief officer”, of “section 128D(1)(b)” for “section 128E(1)”,”. These are all minor or typographical amendments. Amendment No. 16 is a minor technical amendment required to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Amendments Nos. 18 and 19 are closely linked and propose changes to sections 22 and 24. Respectively, these sections deal with the election of members of Limerick City and County Council to hold two offices that will be created following the Bill's enactment – the príomh chomhairleoir and leas-phríomh chomhairleoir, the speaker and the deputy speaker of the house. These...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: One of them is the special adviser, appointed independently, and that is a defined external post on which it will be up to the mayor to decide.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Those staff will work in the mayor's office but, ultimately, the executive function for staff will remain with the director general. Can we take it that we will look at it again later? I take the Deputy's point. A lot of issues are involved here. Ultimately, in practice, there will be no way someone can be appointed to the mayor's office without the mayor being involved in the process.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Will the Deputy allow us to come back to it? If we give a commitment to looking at it again and coming forward with something on Report Stage, can we work with that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Only with respect to staff in the mayor's office.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 17: In page 17, to delete line 5 and substitute the following: “(e) in section 182— (i) in subsection (1)(a), by the insertion of “and from being elected to or holding the office of Mayor of Limerick” after “local authority”, and (ii) in subsection (2)— (I) by the insertion of “or acts as Mayor of Limerick...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Could the Deputy repeat that?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Prior to Deputy McNamara coming in, we are in the process of finalising Schedule 1. Under the legislation, we have to stay within the remit of the director general. We will bring that forward in a complete fashion on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Schedule 1 is there.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: We are nearly finished. We have to go through all the various Departments.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. It is subject to change but it is subject to additions rather than change.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: No. We will go through what is in Schedule 1 in great depth when we come to it. However, regarding the amendment itself, we will table that on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: The section reflects the general scheme as to the delegation of the mayoral executive functions by the mayor to the director general. The Deputy is correct in his interpretation of how it is set up. The section sets out a clear framework for delegating responsibilities, providing functions are delegated through instruments in writing and any functions assigned may be subject to any...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: Those are just two, yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Kieran O'Donnell: On a serious note.