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Congratulations to the Dublin City and County Disabled Persons Organisation (DPO), which was launched by Lord Mayor Cllr Ray McAdam on Wednesday 25 February at the Mansion House. The Public Participation Network (PPN)’s Disability Thematic Group (DTG) has been working in partnership with PPN member, Independent Living Movement of Ireland (ILMI), to establish a Dublin City and County DPO, and you can read a full summary here.
Native Irish Honey Bee Society (NIHBS) invite PPN member groups to their Annual Conference on 06 and 07 March in Athlone Springs Hotel. The NIHBS is a conservation organisation dedicated to the preservation and conservation of the Irish Native Honey bee, which is under threat from many different sources. You can find out more about the conference, speakers, presentations and themes to be discussed here.
The Sustainable Energy Communities Programme invite you to a gathering of Sustainable Energy Communities (SECs) from across Dublin City, on Wednesday 11 March. The event will be held in Dublin City Council’s Wood Quay offices from 5.30pm – 7.30pm, which will include time for networking before and after the main event. Please register here.
Community Law and Mediation are delighted to be offering an online Social Welfare Appeals training session on the 07 May 10.00am-1.00pm. This session will cover the social welfare legal landscape, social welfare decision making process, review and appeals process, including a practical toolkit for pursuing reviews and appeals. The fee for this training is €95 (10% discount for members). For more information and how to register please follow the link here.
Training
Social Justice Ireland (SJI) invite PPN members to this online, self-paced training programme for PPN stakeholders. This is useful training for anyone who is new to the PPN (or would like a re-fresher). The modules covered are an introduction to the PPNs, local government budgets, local government, effective participation in consultations, effective facilitation, strategic planning and measuring outcomes and impacts. You can register for this FREE course here.
Dublin City PPN and Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown PPN are organising general training for PPN member groups, from both PPNs and you can find out more on the Events Section of the PPN website here.
Updates From the Secretariat and Representatives
The Public Participation Network has six internal working groups: the community and voluntary pillar working group, the social inclusion pillar working group, the environmental pillar working group, the Disability Thematic Group, the Migrant/Minority thematic group and the Dublin City PPN advisory committee.
Each group or sub-committee meets online and in person to advance the overall work of the PPN, and each group reports back to the monthly Secretariat meeting, which is held online on the second Tuesday of each month.
Of note this week, the Migrant/Minority thematic group attended a meeting with Dublin City Council’s Local Authority Integration Team (LAIT) and you can read a full summary of this meeting here.
Meanwhile, in 2026 the PPN started a new programme of peer-support-sessions for its Representatives and Secretariat, and you can read a full summary of the February session at the Clontarf Castle Hotel here.
Each pillar working group and each thematic group has its own section of the website.
