Editing Council–manager government (section)

==History in the Republic of Ireland==
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Following the turmoil of [[World War I]] (1914–1918), the [[1916 rising]], the [[Irish War of Independence]] (1919–1921), and the [[Irish Civil War]] (1921–1923), the Irish government found it necessary to remove the members of several local authorities and replace them temporarily by paid commissioners.

Both Dublin and Cork city councils were so removed. In both cities, there was a body of opinion that the services provided by the councils were delivered more efficiently and fairly under the commissioners than under the previous system, where the executive function had been, in effect, vested in the councils and their committees.

In 1926, a committee of commercial and industrial interests in Cork came together to consider a scheme of city government. Having regard to the city's experience of commissioners and recent experience in the United States a council–manager plan of city government was proposed.

After discussion between the minister for local government and local representatives, the minister, Richard Mulcahy, introduced as a government measure, the ''Cork City Management Bill 1929'' and it became law despite opposition. The minister proposed and the [[Oireachtas]] enacted similar provision for Dublin City in 1930. Similar laws were passed for Limerick in 1934 and Waterford in 1939 under the [[Fianna Fáil]] government.

Under the ''County Management Act 1940'', which was brought into operation in August 1942, a ''county manager'' is the manager of every [[borough]] or [[town]] in that county, but since the 1990s, has the power to delegate these functions to any other officer of that borough or town council.

The system was modified also in subsequent legislation, particularly the ''City and County Management (Amendment) Act 1955'', which made some adjustments to give greater power to the council members, and the ''Local Government Act 1985'', which provided for the council–manager system in [[Galway City]] once detached for local government purposes from [[County Galway]].

The above acts have been replaced since that time, in substantially the same form, by the ''[[Local Government Act 2001]]''.