Councillors at the meeting of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council held on Monday 8th October 2018 tabled a Motion under Section 140 of the Local Government Act, 2001, requesting the Chief Executive to address a number of questions in that Motion regarding the Shanganagh Urban Village Cooperative Housing Scheme. The proposal for this Scheme received cross-chamber support in September 2017. The original proposal was researched and presented by Cllrs. John Bailey (Fine Gael), Shane O'Brien (Sinn Féin) and Michael Merrigan (Independent) and later received inputs from Cllrs. Jim Gildea (Fine Gael) and Anne Colgan (Independent). The Questions in the Section 140 Motion were drafted by Cllr. Michael Merrigan and signed by five Councillors - Shane O'Brien, John Bailey, Michael Merrigan, Jim Gildea and Lynsey McGovern. The Motion was AGREED on October 8th 2018.