Cork City Council
Cork City Council (Comhairle Catharach Chorcaí) is the local government for Cork city in Ireland. It operates under the Local Government Act 2001 and was called Cork Corporation before 2002. The council is responsible for housing and communities, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, culture and environment, and some emergency services (including Cork City Fire Brigade).
The council has 31 elected members. Elections are held every five years using a proportional representation system (single transferable vote). The city is divided into five local electoral areas. The head of the council is the Lord Mayor, elected each year, and the chief executive is Valerie O’Sullivan. The council meets at City Hall in Cork.
The city’s boundaries have been extended over time, including changes in 1840, 1955, 1965, and more recently in 2019 to include areas around Cork Airport and Douglas. Some areas, such as Little Island and Carrigtwohill, were not included in the latest extension. There were debates about merging Cork City Council with Cork County Council into a single “super council,” but that did not happen. A boundary extension proposal approved in 2018/2019 was implemented later.
Cork City Council has two representatives on the Southern Regional Assembly, within the South-West Strategic Planning Area Committee. Councillors are elected for five-year terms from five local electoral areas (LEAs) that use PR-STV.
The latest local elections were held on 7 June 2024.
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