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Last chance to sign up for the PPN Winter Networking Event on 20 November from 6.30pm – 8.30pm in the Friends of the Elderly premises on Bolton Street. Email Ruth on if you would like to come along in person or if you would like the zoom link.
Dublin City Council (DCC), invite you to a townhall consultation for the first National Strategy for Improving Community Safety. The Dublin townhall will take place on Thursday 20 November, from 12.00pm – 2.00pm at 51 St Stephen’s Green, D2. The National Strategy for Improving Community Safety is an opportunity to redefine and improve community safety across Ireland. Register for the event here.
Dublin City Council (DCC), is inviting applications from members of the public, to join the Local Community Safety Partnerships (LCSP). The LCSP are a new initiative which seek to work collaboratively with local communities, Gardai and public services, to make communities safer places for families, residents and businesses. If you are interested, please complete the application form here.
The Department of Health, invite you to share your views in an online focus group, on how Universal Health Coverage could work in Ireland. As a token of appreciation, participants will receive a €30 gift voucher. Please follow this link here.
The Central Statistics Office (CSO), delivered a training session on the 06 November, to public participation networks (PPNs), to promote data for use with PPN member groups, involved in making submissions on public consultations, and for their own work. You can access the power-point slides here.
Age Friendly Ireland invite you to an AI Interactive coffee morning, where you can try out AI technology in a guided, interactive way, on 21 November from 11.00am to 1.00pm, in the Digital Hub, Roe Lane. You can register on Eventbrite here.
CityScapes invite you to enjoy their 12-part series exploring the three pillars under which the PPN operates: community/voluntary, social inclusion and environment. Made during the Covid-19 pandemic, the series represents the communities that thrive in Dublin City: https://www.dctv.ie/live/
Training and Support Sessions
Social Justice Ireland (SJI) invite PPN stakeholders to sign up for the online, self-guided PPPN Stakeholder Training, which is delivered via pre-recorded training videos. SJI is providing training on behalf of the Department of Rural and Community Development and Gaeltacht (DRCDG), and the training sessions cover: an introduction to the PPN, local government budgets, PPNs and Local Government, Effective Participation in Consultations, Effective Facilitation, Strategic Planning, and Measuring Outcomes and Impacts. You can register for this invaluable course here.
AIMs Eastern Region is hosting a make-up workshop, with Carol Knox from Muck Make-Up on 26 November from 7.00pm – 9.00pm at St Andrew’s Community Centre, Rialto. For more information please email
Updates from PPN Representatives, and Secretariat
The main aim of the PPN is to assist member groups to participate more, in local authority decision making. To this end, there are 20 PPN Representatives who sit across 7 Strategic Policy Committees (SPCs), and the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC).
You can watch the PPN Representatives, at their committee meetings, on the DCC Web TV live, (or from the archive) here.
You can contact the Representatives through their member groups or the PPN pillar working groups.
20 November at 2.30pm Finance
Siobhán Guyatt/ Susan Whelan
24 November at 9.30am Community, Gaeilge, Sport, Arts and Culture (SPC).
Brian Greene/Sorcha Keane
The PPN’s Disability Thematic Group (DTG), hosted a workshop in the Carmelite community centre, on 04 November, to support the ongoing development of the Dublin City Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO). You can read a full summary of this workshop here.
The PPN Migrant/Minority Thematic Group (MTG) attended the latest LAIT forum on Monday 17 November, and you can read a short summary of that meeting here.
The Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (DRCDG), together with S3 Solutions, invite you to access their report “Barriers to Involvement in Public Participation Networks (PPNs)” which you can read here. The report is partly based on a survey from 230 individuals, who provided responses. Members of the Leitrim PPN submitted the greatest number, followed by Offaly, Cork County and Louth. 5 PPNs did not response and they were: Donegal, Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin County and Wexford.
