Motion 1 COUNCILLOR TINA MACVEIGH Received: 24/02/2016
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.
Motion 2 COUNCILLOR LARRY O’TOOLE Received: 23/03/2016
That this Council reviews and considers raising the Income Threshold Limit for housing applications.
Motion 3 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 North. We call for it to be given a full evaluation by the Minister.
Motion 4 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.
Motion 5 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.
Motion 6 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.
Motion 7 COUNCILLOR FRANK KENNEDY Received: 15/05/2016
Replaced: 19/03/2017
Dublin City Council laments the decision to require elected members to pay a fee in order to make a submission or observation on planning matters and resolves to write to the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government calling upon him to rectify the situation by passing the necessary amending legislation without delay.
Motion 8 COUNCILLOR CIERAN PERRY Received: 01/06/2016
Replaced: 22/03/2017
This council calls for the immediate release of Tony Taylor and the Craigavon Two, Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton. This is a human rights issue and not one of political ideology. The continued imprisonment of all three men cast a shadow over the judicial system in the 6 counties.
Tony Taylor remains in prison since his parole was illegally revoked one year ago. No evidence for revoking his parole has been publicised since his arrest. Internment without trial appears to have returned to the 6 counties.
Brendan McConville and John Paul Wootton have been imprisoned for over 8 years on contested evidence from a single unreliable witness. No actual evidence linking either man to the killing of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll has been discovered.
Echoes of past miscarriages of justice by the British State continue to undermine Nationalist trust in the judicial system in the 6 counties.
Motion 9 COUNCILLOR ANDREW KEEGAN Received: 22/06/2016
Replaced: 27/01/2017
Tenants Rights - This council recognises that it unfair that council tenants do not have an independent agency to deal with grievances they may have against their landlord.
Accordingly, it supports the principle of an independent complaints agency that can oversee a charter of tenant’s rights.
Motion 10 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
Motion 11 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.
Motion 12 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.
Motion 13 COUNCILLOR RUAIRI MCGINLEY Received: 12/09/2016
Replaced: 31/01/2017
That the City Council agrees to add 17 Grosvenor Road, Rathgar to the list of Protected Structures.
The building was host for St Michael's School a school for special needs children.
Motion 14 SOUTH CENTRAL AREA COMMITTEE Received: 22/09/2016
Noting:
- the historic importance of the Iveagh
Markets;
- the lack of community amenities in the Liberties Village;
- the length of time the Markets have remained undeveloped and the
contribution this makes to the severe dereliction of the area of
special character of John Dillon Street and surrounds, this Area
Committee requires that Dublin City Council should:
1) Fulfil its own mission to tackle
dereliction and take back responsibility for the development of the Iveagh Markets including a consideration of
acquiring the building if necessary/possible;
2) Commit and secure funding to develop
the building within a two years as a central hub for community,
cultural, social enterprise, tourism and heritage activities in the
Liberties.
This redevelopment of Iveagh Markets
should be addressed urgently as it affects the development of the
surrounding area and impacts negatively on local
communities.
Motion 15 COUNCILLOR RAY MCHUGH Received: 30/09/2016
This Council expresses its concern at the announcement that a nuclear plant will be 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.
Motion 16 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.
Motion 17 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.
Motion 18 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.
Motion 19 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.
Motion 20 COUNCILLOR MICHAEL O’BRIEN Received: 23/11/2016
Replaced: 22/03/2017
That Dublin City Council
Motion 21 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.
Motion 22 COUNCILLOR DAVID COSTELLO Received: 15/02/2017
That this council supports the HSE in their endeavour to locate a sight for a primary care centre in Finglas West and South.
Motion 23 Councillor Cathleen Carney Boud Received: 22/02/2017
That Dublin City Council works to retreat from its policy to privatise the work force within the Council. The Council must now use its budget to employ more full time staff in the manually skilled and trade areas within the Housing Maintenance section in particular. The aim should be to fade out the use of sub-contractors which in the long term can be more costly and often less effective in clearing the workload. Increasing a skilled manual workforce within the Council will improve speed, reliability and accountability in the services it provides to tenants.
Motion 24 COUNCILLOR CIARAN CUFFE Received: 24/02/2017
That the City Council investigates and reports on all planning enforcement, fire and other notices issued in regard to No.’s 1 and 2 Mountjoy Square given that fires resulting in the hospitalisation of residents occurred on 27th December 2006 and 20th February 2017.This inquiry and report shall give details of all complaints received relating to the building, investigate whether the building was over-crowded, and in compliance with all regulations, and provide details of any Section 59 Endangerment Notices issued under the Planning and Development Acts.
Motion 25 COUNCILLOR NIAL RING Received: 07/03/2017
That the Members of this Council call on the management of Crumlin, Beaumont, the Mater, St. James’ and St. Vincent’s Hospitals to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that free car parking in their hospital car park facilities are made available for cancer patients (or a designated family member/carer) during their ongoing oncology treatment.
Motion 26 COUNCILLOR sonya stapleton Received: 07/03/2017
That this Council writes to management of Crumlin, Beaumont, the Mater, St. James’ and St. Vincent’s Hospitals to ask that efforts are made to ensure free car parking for cancer patients or a designated family member or carer during their treatment.
Motion 27 MOTION REFERRED FROM FINANCE SPC Received: 21/03/2017
This Council requests the Government to progress the Coroners Bill 2015 as a matter of urgency, and to ensure that the Coroners Bill will provide for an automatic inquest into EVERY Maternal Death in the State.
Motion 28 COUNCILLOR MÍCHEÁL MACDONNCHA Received: 21/03/2017
TacaíonnChomhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath le Bliain na Gaeilge 2018, ceiliúradh ar 125 bliain d'athbheochan na Gaeilge, agus imreoidh an Comhairle ról gníomhach ann, go háirithe mar gur cuireadh tús leis an athbheochan le bunú Conradh na Gaeilge ar Sráid Uí Chonaill i mBaile Átha Cliath ar 31 Iúil 1893. Tá Bliain na Gaeilge á chomhordú ag breis is 50 grúpa Gaeilge, Gaeltachta agus eile.
Tacóidhagus imreoidh Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath ról gníomhach i 'BEO 2018', mórshiúl ceiliúrtha le ceolchoirm sráide, a eagrófar ar 3 Márta 2018 sa chathair agus mar dhlúthchuid de Bhliain na Gaeilge 2018.
(Dublin City Council supports Bliain na Gaeilge 2018, the celebration of 125 years of the Irish language revival, especially as the revival began with the founding of Conradh na Gaeilge in O'Connell Street on 31 July 1893. Bliain na Gaeilge is co-ordinated by over 50 Irish language and Gaeltacht groups. The City Council will support and play an active role in Beo 2018, a celebratory cultural parade and street concert, that will be organised on 3 March 2018 in the City as an integral part of Bliain na Gaeilge 2018).
Motion 29 COUNCILLOR VINCENT JACKSON Received: 22/03/2017
That Dublin City Council transfers all major engineering services from Marrowbone Lane into DCC owned lands in Cherry Orchard, thus freeing up valuable lands for urban re-generation in the South Inner City including parks, housing, commercial & at the same time providing economic activity in the Cherry Orchard area. An area in real need of investment. It does not make sense to allow that we don’t realise the full value of these lands to the local communities.
Motion 30 COUNCILLOR ALISON GILLILAND Received: 22/03/2017
That DCC 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 DCC commits to partnering with SIPTU and ICTU in implementing The Working City Initiative.
Motion 31 COUNCILLOR PAT DUNNE Received: 22/03/2017
This Council notes with dismay the effective closure of the Crumlin Area Office as of the Monday 6th March when the last Clerical Officer based in Crumlin was transferred to Marrowbone Lane. We further note that despite months of protestations and earlier motions at Area Committee meetings that the office has closed with no public access to services. We call for the immediate re-opening of the office with a full complement of staff.
Motion 32 COUNCILLOR CLAIRE BYRNE Received: 22/03/2017
That this Council calls on the CEO to make a variation to the Docklands SDZ to provide for the protection of the graving docks in Grand Canal Dock.
Minutes:
“This Council instructs the Chief Executive to refrain from releasing press statements in the name of Dublin City Council that are not reflective of the agreed position of the elected members. The press statement released by the Chief Executive on 7th March in relation to the Dublin Fire Brigade dispute was contrary to the position of the elected members who passed an emergency motion at the January council meeting supporting the current Dublin Fire Brigade Emergency Medical Services. The Chief Executive is free to issue statements in the name of the Council Executive”
Submitted by Councillors C Perry, N Ring, S Stapleton, C Burke, S McGrattan and A Gilliland