Paddy Bourke
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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?
Whether to proceed with the Clontarf-to-City Centre cycle route.
A vote to reduce the Local Property Tax by 5% for 2018.
To reduce the Local Property Tax by 15% for 2018.
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.
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.
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.
To award the Freedom of the City to Michelle and Barack Obama.
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.
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.)
On including artistic and cultural spaces in large developments, under the development plan.
On fast-food outlets and restrictions in the city development plan on how close to schools they can be.
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.
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.
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.