Issue - meetings

Meeting: 13/10/2022 - Climate and City Resilience Committee (Item 8)

New Ireland Forum and citizens Assemblies (Councillor de Faoite)

Minutes:

In accordance with notice on the agenda, Councillor de Faoite proposed:

 

“That the Council write again to the Taoiseach’s office regarding the establishment of a New Ireland Forum for the 21st Century, alongside a series of comprehensive Citizens’ Assemblies, to examine the practical, social and economic aspects of a New Ireland.”

 

This was seconded by Councillor McCabe.

 

The Members of the Committee asked for a vote on the proposal. On the recorded vote 10 members voted for the proposal and 7 voted against the proposal and it was declared carried.  

 

 

For 10

 

 

Against 7

 

Councillors Walsh, McKeown, de Faoite, Donnelly, Ferguson, Gormley, McCabe, McCann, McLaughlin and Smyth.

 

Aldermen Haire and Sandford and Councillors Bower, Murray, Newton, Spratt and Thompson.