Paul Gavan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Let us work through the timeline as the Minister of State proposes it. As he proposes it, a review will commence three years into the new mayorship. I am going to take a wild guess, but face it, no reviews I am familiar with take less than six months and probably take a year. Under the most optimistic of circumstances, that would leave one year in the lifetime of a Government to implement the recommendations from that review. As the Minister of State and I both know, that means those recommendations will not be implemented in the lifetime of that Government. This Bill is living proof of that as it has taken four years to come to fruition, although I appreciate it is a complex Bill. My point, which is not meant in a political sense but in a very practical one, is the review period as the Minister of State proposes it means any changes will not be enacted by the time the second mayor is elected. That is the reality. Why would the Government choose that?