Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has addressed the Citizens' Assembly on a directly elected mayor for Dublin.
Its 80 members are tasked with considering how the reformed office should function, before proposals will be brought to the Oireachtas.
The first directly elected mayor of Dublin could take office as soon as 2024 - in 2019, Limerick voted to make their mayor a directly elected position.
Bertie Ahern, says any change to the system should simplify local government structures:
"I like systems that are coherent and straightforward, that you know who the boss is, you know what the committee is and you know what their agenda is. Too much of my political life was spent working about [?] organisation trying to find out what the agenda was. And that I don't like. So I thinks it's to make it better and simpler, and that's what we should be trying to do".
