Frank Kennedy
Electoral history
- May 2014 Elected to the council
Votes
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 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 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
To defer a motion for horse-care facilities next to Labre Park.
To accelerate plans to build homes on a site in Finglas.
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 vary the Local Property Tax downwards by 15% for 2019.
Deferring a decision on selling 53 council-owned homes to Tuath Housing Association.
Selling 53 council-owned homes to Tuath Housing Association.
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.
Inviting the NTA and Dublin Bus to the next City Council meeting to brief members on city centre traffic plans
Calling on the Artane School of Music to disband as a matter of human rights.
On the "Clontarf Sea Wall", on the
proposal to modify the flood defense. It relates to Report No. 355/2017.
A vote to revise the rules for council committees, so that the Automobile Association can join the transport strategic policy committee. It relates to Report No. 24/2018.
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 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.
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.
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.
Naming a street after Savita Halappanavar.
On controlling and culling Herring Gulls.
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.
A vote on whether to dispose of a site to Oaklee Housing Trust Limited. This relates to Report No. 168/2017.
A vote on whether to dispose of St Mary's Mansions, Sean MacDermott Street, Dublin 1 to Clúid Housing Association. It relates to Report No. 170/2017.
To award the Freedom of the City to Michelle and Barack Obama.
A vote on getting rid of the railings around the Bank of Ireland at College Green.
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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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.
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.
On fast-food outlets and restrictions in the city development plan on how close to schools they can be.
Rezoning the DIT building, Rathmines College.
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.
The South Central Area Committee calls for the abolition of water charges and Irish Water.
Calling for the extension of the dublinbikes scheme in the South Central area.
Supporting the development of a pilot scheme of 100% public, mixed-income housing on the O'Devaney Gardens site.
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.
Increase proposed minimum floor area for one-bed studios.
Requesting a report on commercial effects of the expected reduction of car use due to the impacts of the new City Development Plan.
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.
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.
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.