Cork City Council is the local authority

Local government in the Republic of Ireland

Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...

 which is responsible for the city of Cork

Cork (city)

Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the island of Ireland's third most populous city. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the province of Munster. Cork has a population of 119,418, while the addition of the suburban...

 and its immediate hinterland in Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. The Council is responsible for Housing

House

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 and Community, Roads and Transportation, Urban planning

Urban planning

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 and Development, Amenity and Culture

Culture

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, and Environment

Natural environment

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. Prior to the enactment of the Local Government Act 2001

Local Government Act 2001

The Local Government Act, 2001 was enacted by the Oireachtas of the Republic of Ireland on 21 July 2001. Most of the provisions of the Act came into operation on 1 January 2002....

, it was known as Cork Corporation.

The Chairman of the Council has the honorific title of Lord Mayor of Cork

Lord Mayor of Cork

The Lord Mayor of Cork is the honorific title of the Chairman of Cork City Council which is the local government body for the city of Cork in Ireland. The incumbent is Terry Shannon of Fianna Fáil. The office holder is elected annually by the members of the Council.-History of office:In 1199 there...

.

Councillors

Cork City Council has 31 democratically elected members representing the 6 electoral areas in the City. Elections are held every 5 years.

Councillors by electoral area

This list reflects the order in which councillors were elected on 5 June 2009.

‡ Joined Sinn Féin in July 2011

† Were subsequently elected to Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann

Dáil Éireann is the lower house, but principal chamber, of the Oireachtas , which also includes the President of Ireland and Seanad Éireann . It is directly elected at least once in every five years under the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote...

 at the 2011 general election. Accordingly their council seats were filled by co-option.

2011 co-option

Elected to 31st Dáil	Electoral area	Party		Co-optee
Dara Murphy Dara Murphy Dara Murphy is an Irish Fine Gael politician, who was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Cork North Central constituency at the 2011 general election. He is a former Lord Mayor of Cork in 2009–10. He was first elected to the Cork City Council in 2004, and served as Deputy Lord Mayor in 2005–06...	Cork North East		Fine Gael Fine Gael Fine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...	Joe Kavanagh
Jonathan O'Brien Jonathan O'Brien Jonathan O'Brien is an Irish Sinn Féin politician. He was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Cork North Central constituency at the 2011 general election, topping the poll. He is Sinn Féin's Dáil spokesperson on Justice, Equality & Defence....	Cork North West		Sinn Féin Sinn Féin Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...	Michael Nugent

See also

• Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
  Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
  The Local Government Act 1898 was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that established a system of local government in Ireland similar to that already created for England, Wales and Scotland by legislation in 1888 and 1889...
  
  
• Local government in the Republic of Ireland
  Local government in the Republic of Ireland
  Local government functions in the Republic of Ireland are mostly exercised by thirty-four local authorities, termed county or city councils, which cover the entire territory of the state. The area under the jurisdiction of each of these authorities corresponds to the area of each of the 34 LAU I...
  
  

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