A home of your own? - public meeting on housing
Tuesday 23rd January 2007, 8pm, Cultivate Centre, Temple Bar
All welcome
High house prices and lack of social and affordable housing in Dublin South East means that finding a home nearby your family or existing community is all but impossible. Can anything be done to give young people the opportunity of finding a home close to their families and places of employment? Is there an alternative to the fragmented communities and lengthy commuting times delivered by current housing policies?
Together with my Green Party colleagues Ciarán Cuffe TD, and Eamon Ryan TD, I am hosting a public meeting to discuss ideas and solutions on how to tackle the housing crisis we face. We have lined up a number of speakers from various backgrounds to make contributions on the situation in Dublin and elsewhere, and there will be an open forum for people affected by these issues.
This meeting will be of interest to anyone in need of housing, whether it be local authority, affordable, or private housing.
Speakers
Ciarán Cuffe TD (Green Party)
Ciarán Cuffe is a TD for the Dun Laoghaire constituency, the Green Party’s spokesperson on the environment, and convener of the party’s housing policy group.
Prof P.J. Drudy (Trinity College Dublin)
Prof Drudy is Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin, and has published extensively on housing and urban and regional policy. He is the co-author of Out of Reach - Inequalities in the Irish Housing System and is co-editor of the series Dublin: Economic and Social Trends.
Bernard McNamara (Property developer)
Bernard McNamara is Managing Director of Michael McNamara Builders, one of Ireland’s top five building companies and property developers.
Jim Power (Friends First)
Jim Power is Chief Economist with Friends First. Prior to this he was Chief Economist at Bank of Ireland and Treasury Economist at AIB. A graduate of UCD, he currently lectures part time on the MBA course in DCU.
Cllr Bill Randall (Brighton Green Party)
Bill Randall is the founder editor of Inside Housing in the UK, and was named Housing Journalist of the Year 2000 for his regular column in the Daily Express. He is a Green Party Councillor in Brighton and Hove, and has written about housing, community and environmental issues for UK national newspapers and magazines since the 1970s.
Chair: John Gormley TD
How to find the Cultivate Centre
Cultivate is located at 15-19 Essex Street West, close to the Civic Offices in the west end of Temple Bar. Please see the map below, or check out the map on my Constituency page.
