Hmmm, 5 hours later, my first County Council meeting is over.  I nearly didn’t answer my first vote when “Cllr Carroll” was called out.  That will take a long time to get used to.  Ha.

I have got elected to the County Louth VEC Board, County Louth Enterprise Board, Louth LEADER Partnership Board, Association of County and City Councils, the Rural Water Monitoring Programme and the HSE Regional Forum.  It is great to be directly involved with the County Enterprise Board that can do something really tangible about creating jobs in Louth.  The HSE Regional Forum will be an opportunity to see where we are at with health reforms in the North-East and trying to ensure that the new A&E in Our of Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is a success.  The Louth LEADER project has substantial moneys for developing the rural areas over the next 4 years so hopefully, we will see innovative projects that will attract people to Louth’s beautiful history, culture and tourist locations.

The two south Louth electoral areas meet on the first Monday of every month with the regional planner, roads engineer and Drogheda Town Clerk Des Foley.  Then, on the third Monday of every month, the main County Council meeting takes place.

A new time for me but I think that’s what politics needs locally and nationally, new, young people who want to make a difference and change the way that we do business as a community, county and country.

ENDS