Christy Burke
Electoral history
- May 2014 Elected to the council
- May 2019 Elected to the council
- Jun 2024 Elected to the council
Votes
To withdraw motions to dename Herzog Park and rename Diamond Park
To approve the budget for 2026 without amendment to avoid rent increases
To amend the proposed 2026 budget to avoid rent increases
To vary the local property tax rate down 15% for 2026
To end a tax exemption for developers building parking
On including residential use as an option for lands zoned Z15
On leaving wiggle room in a proposed requirement that certain apartments be built as accessible
To vary the Local Property Tax (LPT) downwards by 15% for 2023
To co-opt Geraldine Molloy to fill the late Anthony Flynn's council seat
To co-opt Geraldine Molloy to fill the late Anthony Flynn's council seat
To call on the CEO to move to take back the O'Devaney Gardens site
To amend the 2022 budget for Dublin City Council
To ask council for all financial details of deal for site at Oscar Traynor Road
To increase number of affordable purchase units in Oscar Traynor Rd deal
To sell a site at Oscar Traynor Road to Glenveagh, to build homes on
To seek legal advice on the O'Devaney Gardens development
To sell a property at Abbey St/Marlborough St
To rezone lands in Finglas off Jamestown Road
To defer a decision on disposing of a site on Oscar Traynor Rd in D5 to Glenveagh Living Ltd
To dispose of a site on Oscar Traynor Rd in D5 to Glenveagh Living Ltd
To rezone Clearwater Retail Park to Z1 (Residential)
To rezone Mornington Business Park to Z10 (Mixed)
To rezone sites at Malahide Road to Z10 (Mixed Uses) and Z3 (Neighbourhood)
To rezone a site at Harmonstown Road to Z10 (Mixed Uses)
To rezone 11 Ballyfermot Road Lower to Z1 (Residential)
To rezone Goldenbridge Industrial Estate, Inchicore
To rezone site on Esmond Avenue, Dublin 3 to Z1 (Residential)
To rezone a site on Seville Place, Dublin 1
To rezone 109-114 Cork Street, Dublin 8, to Z10 (Mixed Uses)
To rezone lands at Old Kilmainham/South Circular Road, Dublin 8
To reject a proposal to rezone industrial lands across the city
To rezone a site on Davitt Road, Dublin 12, to Z1 (Residential)
To rezone Glenview Industrial Estate in Dublin 12 to Z10 (Mixed)
To rezone White Heather Industrial Estate, Dublin 8
To rezone a site at Parkgate Street/Wolftone Quay, Dublin 8
To rezone Brickfield House and Sunshine Estate, Dublin 12
To rezone Greenmount Industrial Estate. Dublin 6W
To approve a series of amendments to the Dublin City Development Plan 2016-2022
Vote to elect new Lord Mayor of Dublin
For the Council not to participate or support the commemoration of the RIC
To rescind vote approving O'Devaney Gardens plan.
To support plan for white-water rafting facility on George's Dock.
To approve a council budget for 2020.
To raise commercial rates.
To pilot a participatory budget.
To approve the Cherry Orchard Local Area Plan.
To vary the local property tax rate downwards by 15% for 2020.
To reverse councillors' May 2019 decision to block the sale of a council-owned site at 24 Harcourt Road and 1 and 2 South Richmond Street in Dublin 2, "having an area of 210sq.m or thereabouts", to Charledev Properties DAC for €1.4 million.
To oppose any expansion of the Poolbeg waste-to-energy incinerator.
To question Council Chief Executive Owen Keegan's capacity to deal effectively with the housing crisis.
To allow 'log cabins' and similar structures to be put in back gardens for use as accommodation for family members
To call on the NTA not to cut down mature trees for BusConnects.
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 revise the council's area committee structure to "Option 6".
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
Resolving not to endorse any candidate for the 2018 presidential election.
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.
Inviting the NTA and Dublin Bus to the next City Council meeting to brief members on city centre traffic plans
On the "Clontarf Sea Wall", on the
proposal to modify the flood defense. It relates to Report No. 355/2017.
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.
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?
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.
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.
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1049.
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1093.
To relocate the proposed commercial buffer at the Poolbeg SDZ. It relates to motion 1095.
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.
Calling on the government to hold a referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution.
On the Housing Lands Initiative, including O'Devaney Gardens, St Michael's Estate, and Oscar Traynor Road.
A vote on the report to adopt new speed limits bye laws, including extra 30km/hr zones in the Dublin City Council area.
Reduction of Vacancy Refund Rate by 5% to 45%
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 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 that Dublin City Council condemns and opposes the ongoing use of Shannon Airport by the US military.
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.
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.
Reducing the local property tax by 15% for 2017.
Moving the Parnell Monument to another location on O’Connell Street.
Approving proposals set out in the Housing Land Initiative Feasibility Study.
Seeking an increase in the Traveller accommodation budget for the year.
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.
Increase proposed minimum floor area for one-bed studios.
Reject proposed reduction of minimum floor area for studio apartments to 45m2.
Lease of 1-12 Hogan Court, Wilson’s Place, Dublin 2 to Peter McVerry Trust.
Condemning the recent jailing of protesters against Irish Water metering.
Setting up an "Unused Properties Register", and requisitioning properties on the register that remain idle for more than six months for use as emergency housing.
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.