We know that we can enjoy a better standard of living, because other countries already do.
If you believe that we can have a better quality of life here in Ireland, then I’m asking for your No. 1 vote on Saturday, February 8th 2020.
In 2014, I was elected as a Green Party Councillor to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and served as Cathaoirleach of the Council between 2018 and 2019. I work as a technical Project Manager in Saint Vincent’s Hospital and I volunteer as a mentor at a local CoderDojo, teaching young people computer programming and other technical skills.
During my time on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, I have worked hard to improve the standard of living of people in Dún Laoghaire by improving the environment we live in.
Here are some of the projects I have worked on:
- I set a new levy on vacant shops to deal with absentee landlords leaving their premises fallow. This led to a 20% reduction in the vacancy rate in the county and gave us the budget to quadruple spending on homelessness.
- I worked to persuade a majority of councillors to change the local building insulation and ventilation rules for the 25,000 homes planned to be built here in the next six years.
- I worked with Dutch road engineers studying cycle lane and road junction design. Since then I have worked to change our local road projects to meet best Dutch practice so that children can safely walk and cycle to school.
- I have taken part in many planning cases – seeking to improve rather than prevent development.
- I got the council to ban the use of chemical weedkiller.
- I started a programme of switching the council’s 230 vehicles from fossil fuel to electric power.