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Pictured chairing my first meeting as chair of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Environment & Transportation Strategic Policy Committee A welcome and broad discussion from participants focusing mainly on Road Safety and Bus Connects which will inform future council policy for these important areas

It was great to join Dublin Fine Gael Councillors to meet with our Party Leader Tánaiste Simon Harris TD and Fine Gael Parliamentary Party members to discuss policies and solutions to ensure that at both a national and local level we do all we can to deliver for Dublin.

Strong support shown this morning for the annual Fine Gael Dublin Bay South 🇮🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺⚖️ Business Breakfast. It was great to join Senator Garret Kelleher, Cllr. Cllr. John Kennedy , my brother Robert and many Fine Gael supporters to listen to Fine Gael Party Leader and Tánaiste Simon Harris TD talk about how our

The council's latest Affordable Housing Purchase Scheme announcement refers to units advertised at Woodbrook in Shankill. Details can be found on the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council website. I have strongly supported more focus on affordable housing purchase options like these dlrcoco.ie/housing/purcha…

Working to make our roads safer! I had a motion unanimously passed at our last Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council meeting trying to address dangerous corners on our roads. Given the Council will no longer implement traffic mirrors my motion stated we have to find another

A very interesting and late evening at our Dublin-Rathdown Fine Gael Constituency meeting last night. We reviewed the elections as well as heard about national issues from our great local TDs Minister @NealeRichmond and Maeve O'Connell. I joined my fellow Fine Gael

I was extremely happy as a board member of the dlrSportsPartnership to see after the great work by the team the launch of BoxUp, a new and innovative free equipment sharing solution to parks and communities, in our area at the Samuel Beckett Community Facility in Ballyogan ⚽️🏀🏉

At the April meeting of the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council last night we got two important updates for our area of Glencullen - Sandyford. 1. Ballyogan Library at the Samuel Beckett by the end of April will have longer opening hours from 9am - 8pm Monday - Thursday and

At Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council council meeting this week a motion I submitted calling for a pilot scheme to tackle urban broadband blackspots was passed. I highlighted areas around Foxrock, Cornelscourt and Cabinteely that would be suitable areas for such a pilot scheme Other signatories of the

I advocated two-part strategy to progress the Glenalbyn Swimming Pool project at today's Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council meeting 1. A trilateral discussion with TDs, councillors, council management & the club should proceed 2. A dedicated Government funding stream for standalone swimming pool projects

In response to my call at the May Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council council meeting for a special briefing with all 40 councillors, council management and representation from the Dept of Housing to discuss Affordable Housing Purchase Units, the council have pledged to arrange this

Happy to visit Sandyford Village with Pierce Dargan to discuss his road safety and local public transport priorities for Glencullen-Sandyford, relating to my role as the Environment & Transportation SPC chair, and also as new Road Safety Working Together Group Chair for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

It is welcome that the Local Democracy Taskforce indicated by Minister John Cummins TD will include an objective to drive stronger framework for Local Area Committees and Municipal Districts - I submitted a council resolution on this which was passed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Hopefully it will

In June Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council meeting I called for doubling of bus frequency for Kilmacud, Goatstown, Clonskeagh and UCD to the city centre. This is currently fulfilled by the 11 route to be replaced by a new route, the 86 The Luas is already at capacity - with new housing it will have even

In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council policy meeting today I indicated that population figure planned for Galway City and Limerick City in national planning framework should be more ambitious With 2 Airports & universities, schools, national roads network, shops, services in region, there's more potential

Calculations I undertook for a letter to the Irish Times outlining that a 5 per cent levy on hotel rooms in Dublin region would raise approx €100 million per year were cited by Fine Gael in today's Dublin Plan overseen by James Geoghegan TD businesspost.ie/politics/dubli…

Looking forward to hearing Attorney General, Rossa Fanning SC, deliver the Costello Commemoration in Deansgrange Cemetery, on Sunday at 2pm. The Costello Commemoration The Bar of Ireland Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Cllr. Jim Gildea #costello #costellocommemoration #Deansgrange #dunlaoghaire

After over 8 hours of debate until 1am in the morning, Old Connaught Local Area Plan passed 📑✅ #Local #Politics #Dublin

The latest DLR Times edition provides overview of the Age-Friendly Tablet Initiative at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council libraries I outlined how this initiative could work on council meeting agenda in 2020 & was happy to see implementation - important to link Age-Friendly Strategy with Digital Strategy

Addressing members of Dublin Rathdown Fine Gael Calling for better, more balanced regional development as it is forecast that Dublin population will grow by 300,000 by 2040 - more than population of Galway City & Limerick City combined