Intent: Email to Eoin O'Broin SF spokesman on Housing, seeking support for extending the grant level for retrofit for AHBs
Details: Arranging meetings, emails sent, face to face meetings
Intent: A ban on fox hunting in Ireland
Details: Asked TD’s to support a bill proposed by Deputy Ruth Coppinger, PBP, to ban fox hunting in Ireland
Intent: Pre-legislative scrutiny of any amendments to the Housing Act 1988 with a focus on compliance with human rights. Letter sent prior to appearance before sitting of committee discussing homelessness.
Details: Wrote to Oireachtas Committee Members Regarding 1988 Act prior to appearing before Committee
Intent: Additional pressure from TD to extend the very short and inadequate public consultation window on the An Bord Pleanála Strategic Plan and Customer Action Plan
Details: An Bord Pleanála Strategic Plan and Customer Action Plan consultation
Intent: To highlight concerns and the risks given the Government's approach to rushing Planning legislation through the Oireachtas seeking to fix errors made in the rushed Planning and Development Act 2024 and that is non-compliant with the gov amendments with EU Law and Aarhus Convention. Additionally highlight isses with delay in publishing key statuory instrument and delay in publishing on the eISB
Details: Planning and Development Bill 2025
Intent: Sought for the Housing Committee to prioritise sessions on implementing minimum BER standards in private rental housing from 2025, including timeline, enforcement and tenant protections against renovictions, and on scaling up local authority and AHB retrofit programmes with multi-annual funding and a focus on worst-performing stock, to ensure climate targets are met while protecting tenants and reducing energy poverty.
Details: Input into Housing Committee Work Programme
Intent: The passing of a motion in South Dublin County Council that called on the Minister for Climate, Environment and Energy to introduce a national moratorium on data centres.
Details: Advocacy on Data Centre Moratorium Motion in South Dublin County Council
Intent: Requesting a motion put forward by councillors requesting additional, multi-annual funding for retrofitting of local authority homes from the Department of Housing, Local Government, and Heritage
Details: Motion on Various Councils on Local Authority Energy Efficiency Programme
Intent: Key Challenges being addressed in Budget 2026
Details: Construction specific funding model for AHBs.A cost recovery model to address legacy issues with CAS/CLSS units.Funding of communal facilities and staffing for large schemes.Expanding access to Cost Rental Homes.CREL funding model should have in-built flexibility.Funding for deep retroftting of S an, ...
Intent: Amend Judicial Review Process in planning matters, including to 1) manage cost, 2) promote decisions being amended instead of totally quashing them, and 3) improving the speed of decisions in Judicial Reviews
Details: Judicial Review process in Planning Matters
