Council meetings to be broadcast on the Web

My motion to broadcast council meetings on the internet was passed tonight. For something that I thought was fairly uncontroversial, there was a fairly robust debate. Anyway the council has now agreed to begin the process of getting the meetings online.

It's fair to say that they won't be watching in their millions, but in this day and age, there's no reason why we shouldn't be doing this. The public gallery in Dun Laoghaire only holds 12, so people are often turned away. For those who do want to come to meetings, there will be a closed circuit broadcast to a room beside the Council chamber.

It happens about three or four times a year that there is a huge interest in a particular issue, but I think that if people realised that they could watch a debate on an issue affecting their area, they might be more inclined to keep an eye on what goes on in local government.