The council already uses the devices for environmental monitoring, surveying, and hard-to-reach region access, in addition to mapping, hazardous building inspections, and emergency response.

The CEO of Avtrain, a training and consulting company, Julie Garland, stated on RTÉ's Morning Ireland that the council was seeking to have conversations with “external agencies, industries, academic partners and innovative partnerships on how they can use drones in the future and enable an ecosystem for external drone use.”

According to Ms. Garland, to improve drone use in the city, there has to be involvement in developing drone capabilities within a legislative framework established by the council.

A five-year strategy “would focus on urban air mobility, larger aircraft operating...as well as unmanned aircraft systems and traffic management for low-level operation of drones,” according to her.

It would require cooperation between Dublin City Council, the Irish Aviation Authority, and AirNav Ireland, the semi-state organisation in charge of Irish air traffic management, to get more lower-level airspace for drones in the nation's capital.