No system to create directly-elected mayor for Cork City and county together, Seanad told

Kinsale-based Senator Tim Lombard said the county should have one local authority which would represent around 12.5% of the country and would give it more power

During Thursday's session of the upper house, James Browne said that while the two individual councils in Cork could hold plebiscites on whether to establish the office, it would not be for the city and county. File photo: Gareth Chaney/Collins

There is no mechanism to create the office of a directly-elected mayor for all of Cork, a government minister has told the Seanad.

During Thursday's session of the upper house, James Browne said that while the two individual councils in Cork could hold plebiscites on whether to establish the office, it would not be for the city and county.