Agenda and minutes

ORDER: Agreed.

ORDER: Noted.

ORDER: Presentation noted.

ORDER: Presentation noted.

ORDER: Agreed. Recommend to City Council.

ORDER: Report noted.

ORDER: Reports noted.

ORDER: Agreed.

ORDER: Reports noted.

ORDER: Councillor Eilis Ryan and Councillor Ciaran Cuffe were nominated to the Clontarf to City Centre Cycleway Design Stage.

Motion in the name of Councillor Janice Boylan

That this Committee calls on the Housing Executive and his team to liaise in a fully transparent way with the O’Devaney Gardens Consultative Forum on every aspect of the plans for the site.  The Consultative Group is calling for access to tender documents, plans, meaningful discussions and a full input into making a sustainable community on the site.  This must be the way it is going forward for all of the site.  Full community consultation was promised and it must be delivered upon.

ORDER: Report to Councillor.

Motion in the name of Councillor Janice Boylan

That this Committee calls on the Chief Executive to fully investigate and look into changing the Regulations around Air B & B’s.  In the midst of a housing crisis we have given landlords a loophole to use their properties in this manner which not only adds to the pressure of the Housing crisis but doesn’t help build communities when it’s very transient accommodation.  I understand and know that Dublin City Council are currently investigating such full-time Air B & B lets.  And it is the very opportunity to make the call for the changes needed.  It is disturbing in light of the crisis with housing that this is becoming more and more prevalent and houses are being taken from the regular renting market in favour of Air B & B.

ORDER: Report to Councillor.

Motion in the name of Councillor Janice Boylan

That this Committee calls on the Management and City Architects to seriously consider the request from residents in and around Arklow Street, Dublin 7, to have some of the openings that use to be walk ways closed off in the plans for the O’Devaney site.  One of these has become a community garden and is now a cul de sac which allows safe play for the local children.  I am calling for a full report to be carried out with full consultation with the community and the local Bridewell Garda Station.

ORDER: Report to Councillor.

Motion in the name of Councillor Janice Boylan

That this Committee calls on the Chief Executive and Planners to actively listen to the residents of Stoneybatter, Smithfield and surrounding areas and stop with plans to divert traffic up Blackhall Street and into the heart of our village.  Option 7 is not the preferred option by the majority of residents, business owners and school goers.  And this needs to be stopped and another option, which is Option 8, needs to be seriously considered and implemented. Everyone wants a safe environment for cyclists and we can obtain that without seriously impacting on the livelihoods of people who live, work and go to school in the area.

ORDER: Report to Councillor.

Motion in the name of Councillor Eilis Ryan

That the Chief Executive will within two months report to the Council, for their consideration, in relation to people with disabilities, setting out:

1. The current situation in relation to matters which the Council has direct  ...  view the full minutes text for item 11.

Emergency Motion in the names of Councillor Ray McAdam and Councillor Christy Burke

That the Central Area Committee strongly urges the Transportation Department to develop a comprehensive and effective traffic management plan for East Wall given the continued problems residents and local businesses are experiencing with parking in addition to the challenges they face on a daily basis with access across the East Wall district. Furthermore, the Central Area Committee requests that senior management in the Transportation Department presents to the December meeting of the Central Area Committee a draft traffic management plan for consultation with East Wallers to take place in the first quarter of 2018

ORDER: Agreed.      

Emergency Motion in the name of Councillor Ray McAdam

That the Central Area Committee agrees to request that officials from the Transportation Department, Central Area Office and Gardai from the Bridewell meet with the DeBurgh Road residents in an effort to address the repeated and continuing problems with illegally parked vehicles blocking DeBurgh Road and that parking restrictions are introduced to help alleviate the situation they are having to deal with on almost daily basis.

ORDER: Agreed.

Emergency Motion in the name of Councillor Ray McAdam

That the Central Area Committee agrees that the following steps be taken in order to combat the serious rise in the illegal dumping occurring in and around O’Connell Avenue, Phibsborough over the course of the last four weeks, including:

·         Erection of CCTV on O’Connell Avenue to counteract the repeated illegal dumping outside 11, 12 & 13 O’Connell Avenue.

·         Contacting O’Connor Shannon, Estate Agents, for 13 O’Connell Avenue to insist sufficient waste storage facilities are installed within the curtilage of the property.

·         Increase the frequency of street cleaning on O’Connell Avenue to at least once every two months.

ORDER: Agreed.      

Emergency Motion in the name of Councillor Christy Burke

This Committee sends our best wishes to the young woman who has received burns to her body from fireworks in Dublin 1.

That this Committee once and for all call for extra policing in the area and that Dublin City Council Senior Management be informed by the Garda Senior Management as to the names of the people involved in such anti social behaviour .This behaviour is going on too long and legal action must be taken

ORDER: Agreed.      

Emergency Motion in the name of Councillor Gary Gannon

The members of this Central Area Committee are growing increasingly concerned at the loss of community based services in the North Inner City. 

In particular, we note with worry that CASPr (Community After Schools Project) which provides invaluable childcare and after school care facilities in the Dublin 1 Area, will effectively be forced to cut by 50%, the services that they provide to the area as a consequence of the austerity cuts to Community Employment (CE) which remain in place today. 

We request that an invite be sent to CASPr director Ann Carroll to attend the next meeting of the Central Area Committee to make a presentation on how her  ...  view the full minutes text for item 12.