Dublin City Councillors did not get to deal with a proposal to revoke the Freedom of Dublin City award made to Aung San Suu Kyi.
The proposal to revoke the award follows international outrage over the plight of the Rohingya people and the decision of another recipient, Bob Geldof, to hand his own honorary award back in protest against her award.
The monthly meeting ran behind schedule and councillors refused to agree to sit an extra half an hour to deal with remaining business.
A report from the council's protocol committee had drawn up measures to rescind the award after council officials said there was no means to do this under current legislation which dates back to 2001.
City councillors had previously considered a motion from People Before Profit to revoke the honour but were told there was no mechanism in place to do it.
Lord Mayor Micheál Mac Donnacha (Sinn Féin) then asked the council's protocol committee to present a means by which the award can be removed.
Following legal advice, the committee came up with sample resolutions that if passed, would allow the council to revoke the honour or to have it removed on the request of the recipient.
The chief executive, Owen Keegan, would then be instructed to remove the name from the roll of honour.
Mr Mac Donnacha asked councillors to adjourn the meeting until next Thursday but they refused.
Bob Geldof has written to all councillors urging them to remove the honour saying Ms Suu Khi has been complicit in atrocities committed against the Rohingya people.
He pointed out that Oxford Council - where Ms Suu Khi studied as an undergraduate - had last week voted to revoke their honorary freedom award.
A name was removed once before when in the case of Kuno Meyer, a German Celtic scholar, had his name removed in 1915 for making a pro-German speech during the First World War.
In 1920, after his death, his name was restored shortly after Sinn Féin gained control of the council.
