Electoral history


  1. Feb 2016 Kate O'Connell resigned from the council and was replaced by Anne Feeney
  2. May 2019 Elected to the council

Votes


On including residential use as an option for lands zoned Z15
For
2 Nov 2022
On de-zoning a strip of land next to Griffith Ave to provide access to DCU
Against
2 Nov 2022
On rezoning Slademore Park to allow for housing
Against
2 Nov 2022
On zoning Shanowen lands in Santry to allow for housing
Against
2 Nov 2022
On rezoning part of the CYMS pitch and putt in Dublin 3 to allow for housing
Against
2 Nov 2022
On rezoning church lands at St Teresa's Gardens
For
2 Nov 2022
On rezoning lands in Milltown Park, near Gonzaga College, Dublin 6 to Z12
For
2 Nov 2022
On including the term "natural gas" in council plan to ensure energy supply
Against
1 Nov 2022
On loosening a proposed requirement that new hotels provide cultural spaces for evening/nighttime use
For
1 Nov 2022
On not zoning all of the Marrowbone Lane depot site for green and recreational space
Against
1 Nov 2022
To vary the Local Property Tax (LPT) downwards by 15% for 2023
For
3 Oct 2022
To co-opt Geraldine Molloy to fill the late Anthony Flynn's council seat
Abstain
13 Jun 2022
To co-opt Geraldine Molloy to fill the late Anthony Flynn's council seat
Abstain
7 Mar 2022
To call on the CEO to move to take back the O'Devaney Gardens site
Against
6 Dec 2021
To amend the 2022 budget for Dublin City Council
For
22 Nov 2021
To ask council for all financial details of deal for site at Oscar Traynor Road
Against
22 Nov 2021
To increase number of affordable purchase units in Oscar Traynor Rd deal
For
22 Nov 2021
To sell a site at Oscar Traynor Road to Glenveagh, to build homes on
For
22 Nov 2021
To end the lord mayor's patronage from the Artane band
For
4 Oct 2021
To seek legal advice on the O'Devaney Gardens development
Against
4 Oct 2021
To leave the Local Property Tax rate at its baseline level for 2022
Against
19 Jul 2021
To vary the Local Property Tax rate downards by 15% for 2022
For
19 Jul 2021
To sell a property at Abbey St/Marlborough St
For
5 Jul 2021
To support the use of CCTV to fight illegal dumping
For
5 Jul 2021
To agree to sell a site at Gulistan Terrace in Rathmines to the HSE
For
10 May 2021
To support reports of plans for more street pedestrianisations
For
12 Apr 2021
To defer a decision on disposing of a site on Oscar Traynor Rd in D5 to Glenveagh Living Ltd
For
16 Nov 2020
To dispose of a site on Oscar Traynor Rd in D5 to Glenveagh Living Ltd
For
16 Nov 2020
To vary the local property tax rate downwards by 15% for 2021
For
21 Sep 2020
To rezone Clearwater Retail Park to Z1 (Residential)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone Mornington Business Park to Z10 (Mixed)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone sites at Malahide Road to Z10 (Mixed Uses) and Z3 (Neighbourhood)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone a site at Harmonstown Road to Z10 (Mixed Uses)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone 11 Ballyfermot Road Lower to Z1 (Residential)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone Goldenbridge Industrial Estate, Inchicore
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone site on Esmond Avenue, Dublin 3 to Z1 (Residential)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone a site on Seville Place, Dublin 1
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone 109-114 Cork Street, Dublin 8, to Z10 (Mixed Uses)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone lands at Old Kilmainham/South Circular Road, Dublin 8
For
10 Mar 2020
To reject a proposal to rezone industrial lands across the city
Against
10 Mar 2020
To rezone a site on Davitt Road, Dublin 12, to Z1 (Residential)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone Glenview Industrial Estate in Dublin 12 to Z10 (Mixed)
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone White Heather Industrial Estate, Dublin 8
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone a site at Parkgate Street/Wolftone Quay, Dublin 8
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone Brickfield House and Sunshine Estate, Dublin 12
For
10 Mar 2020
To rezone Greenmount Industrial Estate. Dublin 6W
Against
10 Mar 2020
To approve a series of amendments to the Dublin City Development Plan 2016-2022
For
2 Mar 2020
Vote to elect new Lord Mayor of Dublin
Against
24 Feb 2020
For the Council not to participate or support the commemoration of the RIC
Against
6 Jan 2020
To rescind vote approving O'Devaney Gardens plan.
Against
2 Dec 2019
To support plan for white-water rafting facility on George's Dock.
For
2 Dec 2019
To approve a council budget for 2020.
Against
25 Nov 2019
To raise commercial rates.
Against
25 Nov 2019
To approve O'Devaney Gardens regeneration plan.
For
4 Nov 2019
To pilot a participatory budget.
For
7 Oct 2019
To approve the Cherry Orchard Local Area Plan.
For
7 Oct 2019
To vary the local property tax rate downwards by 15% for 2020.
For
23 Sep 2019
To oppose any expansion of the Poolbeg waste-to-energy incinerator.
For
1 Apr 2019
To question Council Chief Executive Owen Keegan's capacity to deal effectively with the housing crisis.
Against
1 Apr 2019
To rezone land on Marrowbone Lane next to St Catherine’s Sports Centre.
For
4 Feb 2019
To revise the council's area committee structure to "Option 6".
For
4 Feb 2019
To prepare and debate a study on the feasibility of delivering public, cost-rental housing on council-owned lands before disposing of the O'Devaney Gardens or Oscar Traynor Rd sites
Against
19 Nov 2018
To defer a motion for horse-care facilities next to Labre Park.
For
5 Nov 2018
Resolving not to endorse any candidate for the 2018 presidential election.
For
13 Sep 2018
To halt to the sale of the Magdalene Laundry site at Sean McDermott Street.
For
13 Sep 2018
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.
Against
13 Sep 2018
To vary the Local Property Tax downwards by 15% for 2019.
For
13 Sep 2018
Deferring a decision on selling 53 council-owned homes to Tuath Housing Association.
Against
2 Jul 2018
Selling 53 council-owned homes to Tuath Housing Association.
For
2 Jul 2018
Reinstating the event "The Question of the Eighth" at the International Literary Festival Dublin.
For
14 May 2018
Approving the council's plan to spruce up Cathedral Street and Sackville Place.
Abstain
14 May 2018
Supporting the Palestinian-led boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
Against
9 Apr 2018
To urge the Minister for Foreign Affairs to expel the Israeli Ambassador as a first step in recognising the state of Palestine.
Against
9 Apr 2018
Inviting the NTA and Dublin Bus to the next City Council meeting to brief members on city centre traffic plans
For
5 Feb 2018
On the "Clontarf Sea Wall", on the proposal to modify the flood defense. It relates to Report No. 355/2017.
Against
8 Jan 2018
Call to remove Conor Skehan as chair of the Housing Agency.
Against
8 Jan 2018
A call to rehouse 14 homeless families, evicted from the Gresham Hotel.
For
8 Jan 2018
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.
Against
8 Jan 2018
On whether to proceed with a public-private partnership to build social housing in Scribblestown.
For
4 Dec 2017
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.
Against
13 Nov 2017
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.
Against
13 Nov 2017
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.
Against
13 Nov 2017
Adopting the 2018 budget.
For
13 Nov 2017
Setting the annual rate on valuation, also known as "commercial rates".
For
13 Nov 2017
Clontarf Cycle Route: should the council get an independent opinion on whether the public consultation was done correctly?
Against
6 Nov 2017
On whether to accept the council management's recommendation not to add the Fumbally Exchange to the Record of Protected Structures.
Abstain
2 Oct 2017
Whether to proceed with the Clontarf-to-City Centre cycle route.
For
2 Oct 2017
On the amount of social and affordable housing on the Poolbeg SDZ.
Against
2 Oct 2017
A vote to reduce the Local Property Tax by 5% for 2018.
Against
19 Sep 2017
To reduce the Local Property Tax by 15% for 2018.
For
19 Sep 2017
A call to review the housing list, in light of the number of people who have been removed from it.
Against
4 Sep 2017
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.)
For
4 Sep 2017
Amending the draft Ballymun Local Area Plan by deleting the paragraph regarding a reduction of car parking standards.
Against
11 Jul 2017
Recognising the need for additional social and affordable homes in Ballymun.
For
11 Jul 2017
Naming a street after Savita Halappanavar.
For
12 Jun 2017
On controlling and culling Herring Gulls.
For
12 Jun 2017
To require all developments over a certain size in the Poolbeg SDZ to provide 5% of units for social, cultural, creative and artistic purposes. It relates to motion 1046.
Against
18 May 2017
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1049.
Against
18 May 2017
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1093.
Against
18 May 2017
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1095.
Against
18 May 2017
Of the 3,500 new homes permissible on the Poolbeg SDZ under this planning scheme, 900 will be delivered as either social and/or affordable units, and, in addition, Dublin City Council will be given an option to acquire 100 housing units at market rate.
For
18 May 2017
A vote on whether to dispose of a site to Oaklee Housing Trust Limited. This relates to Report No. 168/2017.
For
8 May 2017
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.
For
3 Apr 2017
Calling on the government to hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution.
For
6 Mar 2017
To award the Freedom of the City to Michelle and Barack Obama.
For
6 Feb 2017
A vote on getting rid of the railings around the Bank of Ireland at College Green.
For
6 Feb 2017
On the Housing Lands Initiative, including O'Devaney Gardens, St Michael's Estate, and Oscar Traynor Road.
For
9 Jan 2017
Calling on the government to help ensure that Northern Ireland remains in the EU.
Against
9 Jan 2017
A vote on the report to adopt new speed limits bye laws, including extra 30km/hr zones in the Dublin City Council area.
Abstain
5 Dec 2016
Reduction of Vacancy Refund Rate by 5% to 45%
Against
14 Nov 2016
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.
Against
14 Nov 2016
To set the rate of valuation at 0.257 for the coming year.
Against
14 Nov 2016
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.
For
14 Nov 2016
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.)
For
7 Nov 2016
Vote on works on Charlemont Street footpath.
For
7 Nov 2016
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.)
Against
7 Nov 2016
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.)
Against
7 Nov 2016
Ceisteanna fé Bhuan Ordú Úimhir 16
For
3 Oct 2016
A motion that Dublin City Council condemns and opposes the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by the US military.
Against
3 Oct 2016
A motion calling on RTE to make their lands available for "modular housing".
For
3 Oct 2016
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.
Against
3 Oct 2016
To limit the height of development on the Oscar Traynor Road land to six storeys.
Against
23 Sep 2016
Setting height limits for developments in the inner and outer city.
For
23 Sep 2016
Zoning for an open space on Bridgefoot Street.
For
23 Sep 2016
On affordable and social housing on the O'Devaney Gardens site in the development plan.
For
23 Sep 2016
To keep the Greenmount Industrial Estate in Harold's Cross zoned as Z6 in the development plan.
For
23 Sep 2016
Rezoning the DIT building, Rathmines College.
Against
23 Sep 2016
Rescinding the council's decision of 25 July 2016 to support the development of a pilot scheme of 100% public, mixed-income housing on the O'Devaney Gardens site, and instead supporting the provision of 30% social & 20% affordable and cost rental on the site.
For
22 Sep 2016
Reducing the local property tax by 15% for 2017.
For
22 Sep 2016
Moving the Parnell Monument to another location on O’Connell Street.
For
5 Sep 2016
Calling for the extension of the dublinbikes scheme in the South Central area.
For
5 Sep 2016
A vote on the council's position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Against
4 Jul 2016