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
Email to Cllr Roisín Mannion inviting her to South Dublin County Partnership workshop on data centres. - EmailEmails to all councillors in South Dublin County Council encouraging them to support the motion tabled by Cllr Jess Spear: “That this council resolves to write to the Minister for Climate and the Environment requesting a national moratorium on further data centre expansion.” - EmailPhone Calls with Cllr Jess Spear on data centre moratorium motion. - Phone call
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
Emailed city and county councillors requesting they put forward motion at their next council meeting requesting additional, multi-annual funding for the local authority retrofit programme. - Email
Intent: Calling for the new government to take decisive action in six critical areas in their new programme for governmentTackling child homelessness Expanding universal school meals Strengthening youth mental health services Reducing assessment waiting lists Developing accessible play spaces Enhancing digital safety
Email with pdf of Manifesto attached - EmailSocial media on X, Facebook, Instagram and Linkedin over period mid-December 2024 to mid-January 2025. Text and graphics. - Social Media
Intent: Increased funding for disability services to enable services to continue, address consequential challenges in staff recruitment and retention and address emergency need for residential spaces
Intent: Have Public Representatives 'sign' the Social Enterprise Charter
Details: Speak to Public Representatives about the Social Enterprise Charter and explain the vital need for each to have a designated spokesperson on Social Enterprise
Amy emailed Councillors Brian Lawlor; Lynn McCrave; Shirley O'Hara; Vicki Casserly; Kenneth Egan; Charlie O'Connor and David McManus of South Dublin County Council and Darcy Lonergan of Dublin City Council to discuss the Social Enterprise Charter - EmailAmy emailed Mark Ward TD to discuss the Social Enterprise Charter - EmailAmy emailed TDs Alan Farrell; Catherine Martin; Francis Noel Duffy and Roderic O'Gorman to discuss the Social Enterprise Charter - Email
Intent: Political awareness of the treatment of four Unite members working for a company - Murphy International - contracted by South Dublin Co Council to carry out publicly-funded work
Details: Dismissal of four Unite members by Murphy International, including a shop steward, on what Unite believes to have been spurious grounds