Áine Clancy
Electoral history
- May 2014 Elected to the council
Votes
To allow 'log cabins' and similar structures to be put in back gardens for use as accommodation for family members
To amend a motion to sell council-owned housing to Tuath Housing in an effort to ensure that if it were to go bankrupt, the council would get the homes back.
To rezone land on Marrowbone Lane next to St Catherine’s Sports Centre.
To revise the council's area committee structure to "Option 6".
To accelerate plans to build homes on a site in Finglas.
To halt to the sale of the Magdalene Laundry site at Sean McDermott Street.
To defer the disposal of a site at Tonlegee Road, Dublin 5 to Woodbine Primary Care Limited for €1,275,000 for the development of a primary-care centre.
To vary the Local Property Tax downwards by 15% for 2019.
Reinstating the event "The Question of the Eighth" at the International Literary Festival Dublin.
Approving the council's plan to spruce up Cathedral Street and Sackville Place.
Supporting the Palestinian-led boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
To urge the Minister for Foreign Affairs to expel the Israeli Ambassador as a first step in recognising the state of Palestine.
On the "Clontarf Sea Wall", on the
proposal to modify the flood defense. It relates to Report No. 355/2017.
Call to remove Conor Skehan as chair of the Housing Agency.
A call to rehouse 14 homeless families, evicted from the Gresham Hotel.
A vote in relation to managing traffic around College Green, calling on the chief executive to not make any changes before a planning hearing happens.
On the procedures to delete people from Dublin's roll of honour. Because the honour had only been revoked once before, in 1915, councillors had to agree the procedure in place now. This relates to Report No. 417/2017.
On removing Burma/Myanmar's politician Aung San Suu Kyi from Dublin's roll of honour.
On whether or not to approve a report, which includes a motion to fly the Catalan flag over City Hall.
It relates to Report No. 422/2017.
About a motion calling for a ban on the use of public land for private for-profit housing; and calling for engagement with state bodies and others to get the most "Part V" social housing that they can from their land; and calling for a commitment to mixed-income not-for-profit housing on sites.
The vote was on whether or not to refer this motion to the council's housing committee, to discuss it there.
On whether to proceed with a public-private partnership to build social housing in Scribblestown.
Suspension of Standing Orders to allow for the consideration of an emergency motion relating to the Freedom of the City and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Whether to not approve the annual council budget for 2018, and instead to seek a meeting with the Minister for Housing to get money to build more on public land.
A vote to set the "vacancy refund rate" at 40 percent for 2018. This refund rate is the amount that owners of vacant commercial property are given back, from their commercial rates payments.
Adopting the 2018 budget.
Setting the annual rate on valuation, also known as "commercial rates".
Clontarf Cycle Route: should the council get an independent opinion on whether the public consultation was done correctly?
On whether to accept the council management's recommendation not to add the Fumbally Exchange to the Record of Protected Structures.
Whether to proceed with the Clontarf-to-City Centre cycle route.
On the amount of social and affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ.
A vote to reduce the Local Property Tax by 5% for 2018.
To reduce the Local Property Tax by 15% for 2018.
A call to review the housing list, in light of the number of people who have been removed from it.
To approve the renewal of Dublin City Centre Business Improvement Districts (BID) scheme, also known as DublinTown. This relates to Report No. 258/2017. (There was also a vote to defer this, put forward by Councillor Mannix Flynn but that suggestion was defeated.)
Amending the draft Ballymun Local Area Plan by deleting the paragraph regarding a reduction of car parking standards.
Recognising the need for additional social and affordable homes in Ballymun.
Naming a street after Savita Halappanavar.
On controlling and culling Herring Gulls.
Entering into an agreement with South Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare and Louth county councils, whereby Dublin City Council will carry out all of their functions in respect to social housing Public-Private-Partnership Bundle 1, involving 500 homes.
Calling on the government to hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution.
To award the Freedom of the City to Michelle and Barack Obama.
On the Housing Lands Initiative, including O'Devaney Gardens, St Michael's Estate, and Oscar Traynor Road.
Calling on the government to help ensure that Northern Ireland remains in the EU.
Reduction of Vacancy Refund Rate by 5% to 45%
To increase funding for Cleansing Support in Business Areas; Dublin Bikes and Arts and Commemorations.
To reduce Vacancy Refund Rate; reduce the proposed boiler charge; and increase Commercial Rates.
To set the rate of valuation at 0.257 for the coming year.
Mandating the tArdmhéara to seek an urgent delegation meeting with the Minister for Housing at which the Minister will set out how he intends to provide the required increased capital allocation for housing for Dublin City Council 2017-2019.
Vote on whether to go ahead with putting up an advertising structure on Shelbourne Road in Dublin 4. (Part of the deal on how to fund DublinBike.)
Vote on works on Charlemont Street footpath.
Vote on whether to go ahead and put up advertising structures in Donnybrook in Dublin 4. (Part of the deal on how to fund DublinBike.)
Vote on whether to put up an advertising structure at the junction of Pembroke Road and Herbert Park in Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. (Part of the deal on how to fund DublinBike.)
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A motion calling on RTE to make their lands available for "modular housing".
To change the plan for the development of council-owned lands at Oscar Traynor Road from a public-private partnership, to publicly owned government-developed social and affordable housing.
On including artistic and cultural spaces in large developments, under the development plan.
To limit the height of development on the Oscar Traynor Road land to six storeys.
Setting height limits for developments in the inner and outer city.
Zoning for an open space on Bridgefoot Street.
On affordable and social housing on the O'Devaney Gardens site in the development plan.
To keep the Greenmount Industrial Estate in Harold's Cross zoned as Z6 in the development plan.
Supporting the development of a pilot scheme of 100% public, mixed-income housing on the O'Devaney Gardens site.
A vote on the council's position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Approving proposals set out in the Housing Land Initiative Feasibility Study.
Calling on the government to hold a referendum to repeal the 8th Amendment of the Constitution. Relates to motion 35, as amended.
Calling on the chief executive to declare the provision of modular housing an emergency measure.
Supporting the use of modular factory-built housing as a temporary measure.
Supporting the use of modular housing as a temporary provision.
To decide if a variation would be made to the Local Property Tax for 2016 and if so by what percentage.
The proposed disposal (sale) of No. 3 Henrietta Street, Dublin 7.
Condemning the recent jailing of protesters against Irish Water metering.
That this Council agrees to commemorate with due dignity, as an integral part of the proposed Moore Street Museum, all lives lost in the 1916 uprising.
Deploring excessive mobilisation of Gardaí to enforce the installation of water meters.
That the question be put in accordance with Standing Orders
Reducing the Local Property Tax by 15% for the coming year.