The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu has launched an Integration Strategy as part of community support plan for the city.
The event took place on a webinar today. Chu believes that the future of the city should be welcoming, inclusive, dynamic, prosperous and a fair city to live, work and play in.
She wants to deliver on climate action, create and maintain jobs, deliver accessible and quality health, welfare, justice, housing, education and training, and public services.
She also wants to support arts and culture, hospitality, sports, and entertainment while supporting community development in the city.
Dublin City Council is beginning the process of creating the new Dublin City Integration Strategy, with the process occurring between 2021-2025.
The online webinar was held for almost 50 city stakeholders and social partners in order to discuss this initiative.
The event was chaired by Hazel Chu, who said: “We live in an increasingly diverse, multicultural city.
"I recognise how today we are more challenged than ever before to better realise the future of our city as a welcoming, inclusive, dynamic, prosperous and indeed a fair city to live in, to work and to play in.
"That is why I am beginning a process of stakeholder engagement and public consultation towards the development of a new Integration Strategy for Dublin.”
She described her hopes for the future of the city: “I want Dublin to be the city in Europe that places integration at the heart of all that we do to deliver climate action, to create and maintain jobs and employment, to deliver accessible and quality health, welfare, justice, housing, education and training, public services, when supporting the creative industries in arts and culture, in our hospitality, sports and entertainments sectors and when enabling and supporting community development for our city.”
Knowledge was exchanged throughout the webinar in order to support the work of producing an issues paper and report.
This will help create the next steps in the development of the strategy.
Dublin City’s Integration Strategy is being developed as part of the work of Dublin City’s Local and Community Development Committee in 2021.
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