Leaving Cert 2021
On behalf of the Leaving Cert students of 2021 Mary demanded clarity, certaintity & choice. These students have lost 5 months of classroom learning and alternative arrangements must be put in place to allow them progress from secondary school.
Vaccine Centres Announced
Mary has received an update from the Minister for Health announcing the nationwide vaccine centres. In Dublin Central, TU campus at Grangegorman will be a centre, along with DCU in Santry, Aviva Stadium and Citywest Hotel & Convention centre. The 37 centres have been confirmed by the HSE, with at least one in every county. […]
Cross Guns SHD- Public Meeting
On Saturday February 13th Mary and Cllr Eimer McCormack hosted public meeting online to review the planning application for the Cross Guns Strategic Housing Development. The application was made to An Bord Pleanala on 1st February 2020 and the deadline for submissions is 5.30pm on March 8th. For info on how to submit an observation […]
Walking & Cycling Fund
Government has allocated €240m to support sustainable transport projects across the four Dublin councils and the three other counties in the Greater Dublin Area . As a walker and bike rider Mary welcomes the allocation of €18m to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety in Dublin Central. The funds will enable the following Dublin Central projects […]
Cross Guns
Mary & Cllr Eimer McCormack are hosting a public meeting to review a new SHD planning application for 205 apartments at the old bakery site at Cross Guns. The application was made to An Bord Pleanala on 1st February 2020 and the deadline for submissions is 5.30pm on March 8th.The agenda for our zoom call is: Overview […]
Coco’s Law & Safer Internet Day
Mary welcomes the commencement of Coco’s Law, by the Minister for Justice Helen McEntee TD, to mark “Safer Internet Day” 2021. Mary supported the passing of Coco’s Law which criminalises the publication, distribution or sharing or threat of distribution or sharing of intimate images without consent. Coco’s Law creates two new offences which criminalise the […]
Mary on the Last Word
Sinn Féin and Social Democrat TDs are opposed to government financially supporting people on modest incomes own their own home. Defending Government’s ambitious Affordable Housing Plan, on Matt Coopers The Last Word, Mary called on Cian O’Callaghan from the Soc Dem’s to read the plan and to support it. Listen back here
Opposition to Affordable Housing
As part of the biggest housing budget in the history of the State (€3.3billion) Government have an ambitious Affordable Housing Plan that Sinn Féin and Social Democrats are opposing. They appear to be opposed to modest income earners owning their own home. Fianna Fáil believes in home ownership and is determined to put it in […]
Cross Guns
An application was made to An Bord Pleanála on 1st February 2020 for 205 build to rent apartments. Observations must be made to An Bord Pleanála by 5.30pm on March 8th. The proposal includes the following: 55 studio apartments 85 one bed apartments 65 two bed apartments Up to 12 storeys (54m, slightly smaller than […]
Homelessness
Homelessness is still a significant problem and Government has allocated €220million to prevent homelessness, provide emergency and long term accommodation for homeless people. On a positive note, in the Dublin region a record number of homeless people were provided with permanent homes in the final months of 2020. In January the number of homeless families […]