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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. I have published \u201cA Fair City -one Dublin, many Dubliners\u201d a road map for better Local Government in Dublin and \u201cAll the Red Ties\u201d a history of Donnybrook Scout Group.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.dermotlacey.ie","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100064479804399","https:\/\/x.com\/LaceyDermot","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dermot_Lacey"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/1de3268a35da05b176523497917a6593","name":"Webmaster","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b2903aaeac6442785e3f5eca8424818933658e5530c9c243888910b82323fcb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2b2903aaeac6442785e3f5eca8424818933658e5530c9c243888910b82323fcb?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Webmaster"},"url":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/author\/lauren\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dermotlacey.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}