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Motion 1 |
COUNCILLOR CATHLEEN CARNEY BOUD Received: 24/11/2015 Replaced: 19/10/2016
That this Council calls on the Irish Government to work with the Northern Executive to ensure that the democratic wishes of the people of the North of Ireland to remain within the EU (as per the Brexit referendum vote) is respected and facilitated through a border poll. The provision for a referendum on Irish Unity is enshrined in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement which was overwhelmingly voted for by Citizens North and South of this Island.
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Motion 2 |
COUNCILLOR PAT DUNNE Received: 25/11/2015 Replaced: 23/11/2016 Should the proposed creation of a public pedestrianised plaza at College Green be approved, that Dublin City Council and Bank of Ireland enter into discussions to ensure the enhancement of the plaza by removing the railings surrounding the old parliament building.
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Motion 3 |
COUNCILLOR DAMIAN O’FARRELL Received: 25/11/2015
That this Council agrees that Dublin's setting on the River Liffey, with the Dublin mountains to the south, Howth to the north, and also the amenities and wildlife of Dublin Bay, is a unique one, and it is critical to retain existing key landscapes and open spaces which offer so much to the city in terms of amenity and place. The main areas of national landscape importance, which are significant in the context of the city, comprise North Bull Island and extensive parkland areas.
Furthermore it is the policy of Dublin City Council to protect and enhance views and prospects which contribute to the appreciation of landscape and natural heritage and it is an objective of Dublin City Council to investigate the following areas (North Bull Island & St Anne's Park) with a view to determining their suitability for designation as Landscape Conservation Areas. All the above as per Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017 Chapter 6 Greening the City/Landscape 6.4.2.
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Motion 4 |
COUNCILLOR DERMOT LACEY Received: 19/01/2016
This Council reaffirms its support for the provision of Caretakers for our Senior Citizens complexes from within the permanent full time staff of Dublin City Council and rejects reported efforts by the Chief Executive to privatize the service. |
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Motion 5 |
COUNCILLOR ALISON GILLILAND Received: 20/01/2016
That Dublin City Council recognises the importance of sustainable and decent employment in Dublin City, not only as a contributor to the city's overall economic activity but as the bedrock of a fair and more equal society for Dublin citizens, therefore Dublin City Council commits to partnering with SIPTU and ICTU in implementing The Working City Initiative.
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Motion 6 |
MOTION FROM THE NORTH CENTRAL AREA COMMITTEE FROM THEIR DECEMBER MEETING Received: 22/12/2015
That this Area Committee agree that we are concerned, that in respect of land zoned Z15 the ‘open for consideration’ use in the current Dublin City Development Plan 2011-2017 is being improperly used for excessive residential development proposals. This is not the intention of the ‘open for consideration’ use which is set out very clearly in the Development Plan:
An ‘open for consideration’ use is one which may be permitted where the planning authority is satisfied that the proposed development would be compatible with the overall policies and objectives for the zone, would not have undesirable effects on permitted uses, and would otherwise be consistent with the proper planning and sustainable development ofthe area.
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Motion 7 |
COUNCILLOR GREG KELLY Received: 24/02/2016 This Council calls on a review of the voter register for all elections. We are calling that all citizens should be registered by their PPS Number and that it should kick in on their 18th birthday. |
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Motion 8 |
COUNCILLOR TINA MACVEIGH Received: 24/02/2016 Replaced: 04/10/2016
To honour the memory of Savita Halappanavar, who tragically lost her life as a consequence of the Irish State's barbaric and antiquated attitudes to women's reproductive rights, that a street in our capital city be named in her memory.
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Motion 9 |
COUNCILLOR NIAL RING Received: 07/03/2016 Replaced: 24/10/2016
Having regard to the cost of providing a free household bulk waste collection (as detailed in the Chief Executive's answer to my Question No. 98 of September 2016 council meeting) and the income due to DCC from the NTA in respect of loss of parking bay income (as detailed in my Questions No 81 of January 2016, No.69 of June 2016 and Q76 of October 2016), the Members instruct the Chief Executive to immediately reinstate the citywide junk collection for all 160,000 residences in the city on a two year rather than the previous three year cycle, and that the Members further agree that in order to pay for this service, the City Council undertakes to realise and ring fence the lost income of approx. €1.8m per annum due from the NRA in respect of loss of income (due to Luas works) from the c.400 permanently removed DCC parking bays in the city. .
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Motion 10 |
COUNCILLOR DEIRDRE HENEY Received: 22/03/2016
That Dublin City Council agrees that clearways which allow parking up to a certain time be delineated in such a way that motorists (who normally would not park in a clearway), would be made aware that they are parking in a location that will become a clearway at a certain time.
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Motion 11 |
COUNCILLOR LARRY O’TOOLE Received: 23/03/2016
That this Council reviews and considers raising the Income Threshold Limit for housing applications.
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Motion 12 |
MOTION FROM THE NORTH WEST AREA COMMITTEE FROM THEIR MARCH MEETING Received: 21/03/2016
The North West Area Committee notes the lack of transportation and infrastructure in the North West Area and welcomes any solution including the proposed Metro Dublin. We call for it to be given a full evaluation by the new Minister.
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Motion 13 |
COUNCILLOR ANTHONY CONNAGHAN Received: 27/04/2016
That this Council directs the Chief Executive to provide an updated Financial Contribution Scheme to this Council with a view to presenting it to the Department of Environment as a possible solution in helping alleviate the Housing/Homeless Crisis.
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Motion 14 |
COUNCILLOR NORMA SAMMON Received: 27/04/2016 Replaced: 24/08/2016
That the Council sets up a stakeholders forum (to include members of the public, businesses, experts in the control of birds and Council Members) to implement and review control methods for culling Herring Gulls. Herring Gulls are a nuisance throughout the city causing problems such as noise pollution, attacking people and pets, fouling, damage to property and picking apart plastic rubbish bags left for collection. This motion supports the preservation and protection of all other bird species and their habitats in accordance with Irish and EU legislation.
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Motion 15 |
MOTION REFERRED FROM PROTOCOL COMMITTEE FROM MARCH MEETING Received: 10/05/2016
In keeping with best practice and mindful of the connotations of the word ‘Lord’ in ‘Lord Mayor’ that this Council agrees to decommission the title ‘Lord Mayor’ and replace it with much more civic and inclusive title of ‘Civic Mayor’. This would be in keeping with a much more democratic description and title. The days of Lords go back to a time when Ireland was under foreign rule and in many respects, it is an alien, colonialist term. Dublin, the Capital of the Irish Republic, should assert itself and strike a new title and description for the elected chairperson and Civic Mayor of Dublin City and Council. Perhaps a plebiscite and a ballot among City Councillors could be considered here.
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Motion 16 |
COUNCILLOR FRANK KENNEDY Received: 15/05/2016
This Council resolves that the Electoral Register prepared by Dublin City Council will be made available in Excel format as well as in PDFs, as had been the case prior to 2015/16. |
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Motion 17 |
COUNCILLOR CIERAN PERRY Received: 01/06/2016
That, in relation to new housing developments in the coming years, estate, street and block names are chosen to reflect personalities, locations and events relating to the “Decade of Centenaries” which we are currently commemorating. The period covered (1912 to 1922) was a time of great political & social activity and is a rich source of historical material, which will provide many opportunities to suitably acknowledge our heritage through appropriate name choices. Many areas of the city have local links to the National Independence struggle, the early Labour movement and to social & political activity which should be prioritised to ensure that names chosen also have a local relevance.
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Motion 18 |
COUNCILLOR ANDREW KEEGAN Received: 22/06/2016
Giving the opportunity to build on available council land, Dublin City Council should look to build new social housing to an A + standard. We should look to establish urban eco villages and communities for energy efficient and people-first homes, rather than the boring tried and failed 3 bed semi Ds of a non design not suited for future city and modern living.
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Motion 19 |
COUNCILLOR NOELEEN REILLY Received: 25/07/2016 Replaced: 05/10/2016
That this council recognises that Dublin as capital of the State is in a unique position. It is big enough to have its own budget and taxation measures but has been curbed by Central Government for decades that have different interests.
That this council sets up a task force to look at empowering Dublin to raise our own taxes to invest in the city.
And that the following areas will be looked at as a starting point:
? Packaging Tax ? Increased Recovery on Planning fees ? Levy on Chewing Gum ? Container Deposit Legislation ? Levy on Financial Institutions for leaving Residential property vacant for long periods of time. ? Bed Tax
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Motion 20 |
COUNCILLOR ÉILIS RYAN Received: 24/08/2016
That Dublin City Council suspend the implementation of HAP until such time as regulations are amended by the Department of the Environment to allow all HAP recipients to retain their position on housing waiting lists, and their right to transfer into local authority housing in due course.
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Motion 21 |
COUNCILLOR MANNIX FLYNN Received: 11/09/2016
That this monthly meeting of Dublin City Council, mindful of the shameful legacy of institutional abuse in industrial schools documented in the Commission of Inquiry into Child Abuse, call on the Artane School of Music to disband as a matter of human rights.
The School of Music is an establishment jointly run by the Christian Brothers and the GAA, yet encompasses the original and traditional insignia and uniforms that hark back to an age of chronic sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the religious.
The Artane Boys Band was used as a front to hide the gross inhumanity that took place at St Joseph’s School in Artane and other industrial schools run by the Christian Brothers at home and abroad. The harrowing memories of these institutions for abuse victims are regularly flaunted without care or recognition at national sporting events in Croke Park in the form of the present Artane band.
A disbandment of the trust would sever all ties with the former industrial school and its brutal history and in doing so, would acknowledge the ongoing collective suffering of so many.
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Motion 22 |
COUNCILLOR RUAIRI MCGINLEY Received: 12/09/2016
That Dublin City Council agree to APPROVE , Part 8 applications for Metropole units at Shelbourne Road and Charlemont Street as submitted in Sept SEAC. |
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Motion 23 |
SOUTH CENTRAL AREA COMMITTEE Received: 22/09/2016
This Area Committee calls on Dublin City Council to review its policy on parking permits to allow for the allocation of parking permits to medical and healthcare services who need local parking for emergency calls but the cost of parking on a daily basis without a permit is prohibitive and a threat to services.
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Motion 24 |
COUNCILLOR RAY MCHUGH Received: 30/09/2016
This Council express its concern at the announcement that a nuclear plant will built on our doorstep at Hinkley Point, Somerset, and we call on the Minister of Energy to lodge objections to Britain, expressing the concerns of this Council and of our government.
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Motion 25 |
COUNCILLOR PAUL HAND Received: 17/10/2016
That this City Council opposes the uncontrolled and unregulated use of Airbnb in our City. The unregulated use of Airbnb for accommodation aids the upward increase of rents in our city, allows unscrupulous landlords and individuals avoid paying taxes and negatively impacts on the housing and homeless crisis our city is facing. This motion requests that Dublin City Council does everything in its power to investigate and stop this practice taking place in our City and furthermore requests that this motion be sent to the Minister for Finance and the Revenue Commissioners for appropriate action to be taken at a national level.
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Motion 26 |
COUNCILLOR DAITHI DOOLAN Received: 26/10/2016
That Dublin City Council, in noting the level of fuel poverty in lower Ballyfermot, calls on the Department of Environment to immediately release the funding for Phase 2 of the insulation programme for council housing.
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Motion 27 |
COUNCILLOR PAUL MCAULIFFE Received: 26/10/2016
Dublin City Council calls on the Planning Department to open negotiations with JCDEcaux to extend the Coca-Cola Zero dublinbikes scheme to the urban villages of the City along the national primary routes or other routes branching out from the current cluster. This expansion would include the provision of new digital high profile advertising sites in the outer city with particular focus at or near M50 junctions. |
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Motion 28 |
COUNCILLOR CIARAN O’MOORE Received: 11/11/2016
To call on the Irish government to ratify, as soon as possible, The Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs which was adopted by the Council of Europe on 9 July 2014 in order to criminalise illegal organ transplantations [1]. The Irish Government has already signed this convention, but is yet to ratify it.
To call on the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs committee to follow through on the pledge made by the Oireachtas Sub Committee on Human Rights to "investigate to the maximum extent possible" [2], persistent, credible reports of forced organ harvesting and other severe human rights abuses imposed on Falun Gong practitioners and other prisoners of conscience in China
To call on the Chinese government to end its practice of forced live organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience. And release all illegally detained Falun Gong practitioners in China. |
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Motion 29 |
COUNCILLOR MICHAEL O’BRIEN Received: 23/11/2016
That Dublin City Council recognises that in light of:-
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Motion 30 |
COUNCILLOR JOHN LYONS Received: 15/12/2016
Recognising that since its violent establishment in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of more than half of the indigenous people of Palestine, Israel has denied Palestinians their fundamental rights and has refused to comply with international law, noting also that Israel continues to occupy and colonise Palestinian land, discriminate against Palestinian citizens of Israel and deny Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes, this City Council fully supports the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for freedom, equality and justice and commits itself to explore how it can comply with it through its future policyplatform. |
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Deirdre Ni Raghallaigh, RiarathóirCruinnithe, An Ché Adhmaid, BaileÁtha Cliath 8
4 Eanáir 2017
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