Sir, – All Dubliners should have had a chance yesterday to vote not just in the local and European elections, but in a plebiscite to decide whether or not the Government should bring forward legislation to create an office of a directly elected mayor for Dublin.
The reason they are not doing so is because a small number of councillors in Fingal decided to block it. They were in a tiny objecting minority. Across the whole of Dublin, 92 out of 111 councillors and as many as 78 per cent of Dubliners favoured the idea.
The Let Dublin Vote campaign is a grassroots, citizens’ campaign to secure a Government commitment to hold a plebiscite on the issue of a directly elected mayor among the citizens of Dublin. Over the past few weeks letdublinvote.ie have been connecting with business, the trade union movement, civil society groups and the arts culture sector.
Just because the plebiscite was shelved yesterday, does not mean it is off the agenda. – Yours, etc,
DAVID CLEMENTS,
Let Dublin Vote,
c/o 80 Frances Street,
Dublin 8.