Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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276. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the cities for which plebiscites on the creation of a position of directly elected mayor will be run on 24 May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4492/19]

John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Following progress of the Local Government Bill 2018 through the Houses of the Oireachtas, the Bill provides for plebiscites on directly elected mayors with executive functions in the local authority areas of Cork City Council, Limerick City and County Council, and Waterford City and County Council. It is intended that the plebiscites will be held at the same time as the local elections in May. The Bill was enacted on 25 January 2019.