The council plans to spend €917 million in 2018 on services for the city. Explore what it plans to spend it on, and how that differs from 2017.
Earlier this month, Dublin City Councillors agreed the council’s budget of €917 million for the coming year. You can explore where it will go, and how it compares to last year’s spending, through our visualisation below.
Note the large bubbles that illustrate spending on homeless services and Dublin Fire Brigade – the two biggest outlays. If you notice something you’d like us to ask about, send us an email at info@dublininquirer.com.
It'll fill it with water, and decorate it with lights this winter, a council manager said at a recent meeting. But it'll take years to come up with long-term vision.
"I think the public do understand that prison isn't addressing the underlying issues for those people who are committing minor offences but can't get the help that they need to stop that cycle."
At a recent meeting, councillors tabled three motions calling on the council to renovate the pitch, but council managers said there is no plan to do that at the moment.
"So, unfortunately there was no goals ordered," Derek Farrell, a council manager, told councillors at a meeting this week.
