A Dublin City Council emergency motion will this evening seek the reinstatement of the live animal crib outside the Mansion House.
Fine Gael Councillor James Geoghegan is seeking to overturn Dublin Lord Mayor Caroline Conroy's decision to get rid of the live crib after 27 years.
Its cancellation has been met with disappointment by regular visitors.
Councillor Geoghegan told Newstalk Breakfast he hopes there can be a compromise.
"We sent the Lord Mayor an e-mail on Friday evening saying, 'we'd be delighted to meet with you as a group to discuss, is a compromise possible'.
"Unfortunately, we haven't heard back from the Lord Mayor yet.
"10 o'clock this morning is the deadline for emergency motions, so if we haven't heard back... we'll be submitting our emergency motion.
"Effectively, we're putting it to a vote to have elected members have a view on all of this.
"Ultimately, this is a decision for the Lord Mayor... and there's not much we can do about it except for this."
He said he is hopeful that 'common sense' will prevail.
"The overwhelming public opinion in my view is that the crib is something that everybody enjoys," he said.
"The live crib is something that children enjoy every year... there's a number of schools that, during the day, the teachers actually come in and bring the kids to see the live animals."
'We don't know the reason'
Councillor Geoghegan said it is unclear why the crib was pulled.
"We share the view of the Dublin Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that this is an event that promotes animal welfare," he said.
"It's not, as some Green Party councillors have said, something that's bad for animal welfare.
"It wasn't the Lord Mayors argument, strangely.
"Subsequently, though, other Green councillors have come out and said very clearly that it's the position of the National Animal Rights Association - a group that don't favour wool, that they want a boycott on the Dublin Zoo - it's their views that take paramount to everyone else's views it seems when it comes to children.
"So we don't know the actual reason."
He added: "If this isn't successful, I suppose what we'll be looking for is to see could the IFA and this family farm could somehow work with the Minister for the Office to Public Works to maybe see could we put the live animal crib somewhere else."
