Intent: To ask that Councillors bring a motion to a council meeting for budget towards the roll out of sunscreen dispensers in public places.::To campaign for the need for sunscreen in public places.
1 meeting with Cllr David Trost, 25.07.25 - MeetingEmails to local County Councillors & TD's (as outlined below) including those from Kildare County Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown, Monaghan, Louth, Wicklow-Wexford, Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council, Kildare, Dublin West (named below) from 07.07.25 - EmailSMS/Text sent to members of Wexford Council Council, 22.08.25 - Catherine Biddy Walsh, Darragh McDonald, Ger Carthy, Jim Codd, Joe Sullivan, John O'Rourke, Mary Farrell, Oliver Walsh, Paddy Kavanagh - Informal communication
Intent: Quarterly public reports on youth homelessness data across 18 local authorities. They were also encouraged to raise the issue within their Housing Strategic Policy Committees,submit questions on current data practices, and advocate for improved data and a successor youth homelessness strategy within their political parties. The aim is to support cross-party efforts toward ending homelessness by 2030 and to drive tangible improvements in local data collection and consultation
Details: To improve policy, prevention, and data collection re: youth housing
'Quarterly public reports on youth homelessness data across 18 local authorities. They were also encouraged to raise the issue within their Housing Strategic Policy Committees,submit questions on current data practices, and advocate for improved data and a successor youth homelessness strategy within their political parties. The aim is to support cross-party efforts toward ending homelessness by 2030 and to drive tangible improvements in local data collection and consultation.' - Email
Intent: An increased understanding of the extent of youth homelessness across local authorities and to provide quarterly publicly available reports on the number of young people aged 18-24 that present for support due to homelessness including numbers assessed as homeless under section 2 of Housing Act 1988, numbers allocated emergency accommodation, numbers not allocated emergency accommodation and reasons why and the numbers not regards as homeless.
Details: Seeking a change in policy, prevention and data collection in regard to youth homelessness, for an increased understanding of the extent of youth homelessness across 18 local authorities.
Intent: improved funding for servicesFunding and support for dedicated youth facilities.
Details: We engaged with elected representatives regarding funding for youth and family services in Kildare and West Wicklow. We also discussed facilities and premises across the region.
Intent: Elected councillors pledge to use factual and accurate information if elected as Councillor and bring a motion forward to their council to do the same. .
Details: Follow-up to local election pledge asking candidates who signed the pledge to : Local election pledge for candidates to pledge to: That is why we are asking you to pledge to use factual and accurate information during your election campaign, and during your term if elected as Councillor.
Aoife Breslin and Mark Wall were emailed to highlight the Crisis in Care Campaign and the challenges facing the nursing home sector. - EmailPat Balfe called into the nursing home in Suncroft Lodge, County Kildare to discuss the crisis in care campaign and speak with residents - Meeting
Intent: We were seeking Catherines support in lobbying the relavant Minister regarding the issues discussed.
Details: Met with Catherine Murphy TD in Monasterevin on May 10 2024 with Pat Balfe, who at that time was seeking election as a local councillor. We discussed Youth work funding and the challeneges we face in Kildare access parity of funding levels with other parts of the country. We also discussed the cvhal, ...
Intent: Provide members of KCC with an awareness of our current land holding in Celbridge and our interest in putting these lands forward for zoning. To have our lands re-zoned in the 2024-2030 LAP::Inclusion of land in 2024-2030 rezoning
Details: Enquiry regarding LAP 2024-2030 for Celbridge KCC
