Intent: Awareness
Details: Dublin City Council Climate Change Action Plan Information Day: Saturday 16th of February at the Mansion House: Information stand for Green Flag Award for Parks
Intent: Raised issue at Dublin City Council SPC meeting
Details: Appropriate housing provision for people with disabilities
Intent: Agreement to establish pilot programmes
Details: Met with Celine Reilly to discuss ALONE's services and to explore potential for housing and support services to be delivered to DCC Tenants.
Intent: To encourage oireachtas members, Senators and DCC members to support publicly funded higher education
Details: Publicly Funded Higher Education
Intent: For 18 months, the IGBC conducted a comprehensive consultation process across the country to co-design an ambitious national renovation strategy for Ireland - see www.buildupon.eu/ireland for further details. This led to the publication of a final set of recommendations in Feb. 2017 - http://buildupon.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IGBC-BUILD-Upon-Final-Web-24.02.17-1.pdf. Several meetings with politicians & senior civil servants took place to ensure these recommendations are taken into account.
Details: Ireland's National Renovation Strategy V.2 - Under the Energy Efficiency Directive (article 4), Ireland (DCCAE) is due to publish an updated version of its national renovation strategy by 30.04.2017.
Intent: Provide local authority with detail on hotel market requirements in Dublin
Details: Submission on the Irish Hotel Market with respect to the forthcoming Dublin City Development Plan
Intent: To include housing issues specific to older people in overall policy submissions
Details: Housing Issues for Older People
Intent: To include housing issues specific to older people in overall policy submissions
Details: Housing Issues for Older People
Intent: To secure the provision of 22 modular housing units in Ballymun
Details: Support for Modular Housing
Intent: Inclusion of passive house standard or equivalent in development plans, for the protection of public health, comfort, the environment, and the economy.
Details: I have lobbied and am lobbying local authorities to encourage them to adopt higher building standards in their development plans. This is unpaid lobbying work.
