{"id":1084,"date":"2024-05-21T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2024-05-27T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T15:46:06","slug":"brilliant-evening-out-canvassing-within-the-three-wards-in-dublin-bay-south-ahead-of-the-local-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/2024\/05\/brilliant-evening-out-canvassing-within-the-three-wards-in-dublin-bay-south-ahead-of-the-local-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant evening out canvassing within the  three wards in Dublin Bay South ahead of the local elections:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t10\/2\/16\/1f339.png\" alt=\"&#x1f339;\"> Myself and my team were out in Pembroke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t10\/2\/16\/1f339.png\" alt=\"&#x1f339;\">Fiona Connelly in Kimmage-Rathmines<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"16\" width=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t10\/2\/16\/1f339.png\" alt=\"&#x1f339;\">Carol Reynolds in South East Inner City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dermot-lacey-canvassing--1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1085\" style=\"width:750px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dermot-lacey-canvassing--1024x768.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dermot-lacey-canvassing--300x225.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dermot-lacey-canvassing--768x576.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/dermot-lacey-canvassing-.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myself and my team were out in Pembroke Fiona Connelly in Kimmage-Rathmines Carol Reynolds in South East Inner City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[162],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-dermot-lacey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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My priorities Community support, housing delivery, local government reform and supporting the voluntary youth sector. My background Growing up in Donnybrook, where I still live, I was always in involved in community life particularly through my membership of Donnybrook Scout Group. I was co-opted to Dublin City Council in 1993 to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Ruairi Quinn as Minister for Enterprise and Employment. Since then I have been re-elected at each local elections in 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019 in varying parts of Dublin Bay South as the electoral areas changed. On the Council I have served as Chairperson of the Employment Committee, Finance Committee, Arts and Sports Committee, Housing Committee, Protocol Committee and the Council itself as Lord Mayor of Dublin. I have also served as Chairperson of the South East Area Committee. I was elected Leader of the Labour Group in 2011. I have served as Cathaoirleach of the Dublin Regional Authority, the Southern and Eastern Regional Assembly and the Eastern and Midlands Regional Assembly. The only person to chair all three. I pioneered the 20% Social and Affordable Housing concept though the Dublin Docklands Development MasterPlan and have established a housing co-op in my own area and am a Board member of an Approved Housing Body. I was for ten years Chairperson of the South Dublin\/Wicklow Branch of the Irish Foster Care Association. Clubs and Committees Currently on Dublin City Council I Chair the South East Area Committee and the Housing Strategic Policy Committee. I am Board member of Donnybrook Community Employment and Sandymount Community Services, Donnybrook Community Playschool and numerous other local, community and Dublin wide organisations. I am member of the Board of Scouting Ireland, the City of Dublin Education and Training Board and the Royal Hospital Donnybrook Board. 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