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| The city is governed by Dublin City Council, which is presided over by the Lord Mayor, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in the Mansion House. Dublin City Council is based in two major buildings. Meetings take place in the headquarters at Dublin City Hall, the former Royal Exchange taken over for city government use in the 1850s. Many of its administrative staff are based in the Civic Offices on Wood Quay. The council is a unicameral assembly of 52 members, elected every five years from Local Election Areas. The party with the majority of seats (or a coalition of parties who form a majority) decides who sits on what committee, what policies are followed, and who becomes Lord Mayor. Chaired by the Lord Mayor, the Council passes an annual budget for spending on housing, traffic management, refuse, drainage, planning, etc. The Dublin City Manager is responsible for the implementation of decisions of the City Council. The current ruling coalition is the Democratic Alliance, made up of Labour and Fine Gael. Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, People Before Profit Alliance and non-party councillors act as opposition. The current Lord Mayor is Gerry Breen, who was elected in June 2010.[14] In 2008, the national government announced plans for local government reform, with the biggest change being plans for an elected Mayor of Dublin with executive powers. The Environment Minister John Gormley said that the new mayor will make local government services more efficient for the capital's inhabitants.[15] The plan also includes local plebiscites, petition rights, participatory budgeting and city meetings Oral hcgshakeology reviews | |
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