Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which legislation on directly elected mayors will be published. [30412/20]

Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the date on which the first election of a directly elected mayor of Limerick will take place. [30413/20]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 136 and 137 together.

The Programme for Government commits to passing legislation to allow the first directly elected mayor in Limerick to be elected in 2021.

The report of the Implementation Advisory Group, established in December 2019 to advise on how best to establish and shape the role of a directly elected mayor with executive functions in Limerick City and County Council, is nearing completion. I expect the Group's report to be presented to my colleague, the Minister of State for Planning and Local Government, Mr Peter Burke TD, this month.

This report, together with legislative proposals which will derive from it, will then be brought before Government and the Oireachtas in accordance with section 44 of the Local Government Act 2019. This will pave the way for the publication of draft legislation in time to meet the Programme for Government commitment for mayoral elections in Limerick in 2021, possibly in the Autumn.