The City Council, led by Fine Gael, Fianna Fail and the Greens intend to adopt a City budget that hikes rents for Council, HAP, RAS and Approved Housing Body tenants.  The rent hikes will hit in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, with families already struggling to meet basic costs. At the same time, Ireland is set to have a budget surplus of over €9 billion. Why is that while tech companies and billionaires are being given a light load by the government, we are being told that these rent hikes are necessary?  They passed the rent hikes in Dublin by one vote. Thats how close these fights are. Its only through organising as tenants and putting pressure on our elected representatives that these hikes can be resisted. 

We hope to get as much support as possible as this will affect everyone even in the future for other generations. The town will struggle more as it does not have the larger amount  of service's needed and these should be implemented before any housing comes in We hope to achieve as many as signatures as possible.  Open to individual residents to sign (Meaning: more than 1 person living in a household can sign as it affects all of us individually) 

On 24th October 2011, Irish citizen and hospice worker Celia de Jesus lost her life during a major flood event in Dublin. Unable to exit her basement flat as floodwater quickly rose at her door, she was trapped and drowned. In his report, the Dublin District Coroner of the time argue that Celia de Jesus drowned “as a result of a surge of water and flooding over a short period of time following two days of heavy rain”, reaching a final verdict of “death by misadventure”. However, extensive research into the tragic event reveals that the coroner report omits several pieces of evidence clearly challenging the conclusion of the report. Two of the main pieces of evidence left out of the report are as follows: • EVIDENCE 1: Celia de Jesus’s landlord had not received planning permission to divide the basement of his property into two rental units. Celia de Jesus was therefore renting an unauthorised basement flat. Furthermore, while located in a well-known flood-prone area, the basement flat had only one means of exit, the entrance door. All windows of the flat were blocked with metal bars. When Celia de Jesus was unable to open her entrance door for unknown reasons, she had no other means of exit at her disposal and was trapped. These pieces of evidence are never explicitly mentioned in the report and never outlined as a major cause of the tragic death. Instead, the claim is made that the works to divide the basement into two rental units (“appear to”) precede the Building Control Act 1990 and that, as a result, they shall be deemed to have been permitted. However, such a legal technicality cannot justify entertaining a misleading account of the tragic death. • EVIDENCE 2: In the coroner report, a list of planning applications submitted for the property in which Celia de Jesus died, both granted and refused, is provided. However, one planning application, dated 2009 and refused, is not included in the list. In this planning application addressed to Dublin City Council, it is stated that the property in which Celia de Jesus lived and died is “not of a habitable standard” (architect report, planning application 3066/09). Despite such a concerning statement, the issue failed to be addressed, which constituted another significant enabler of the tragic event. Following the tragic event and until now, various state and local government agencies, among them Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council and the Office of Public Works, have actively sustained the misleading account of Celia de Jesus’s death in reports and during public meetings. Instead of mentioning the planning breach and institutional failure that led to the tragic death, they consistently and unliterally blamed the flood. The misleading account was widely relayed in the local and national press and among local communities. As we are now approaching the fifteenth anniversary of the tragic death, we ask Dublin City Council, South Dublin County Council, the Office of Public Works and the Minister for Justice to take the following actions as a matter of urgency: • ACTION 1: Issue a public statement explaining the full circumstances of the death of Celia de Jesus based on all available evidence • ACTION 2: Issue a public apology for having sustained a misleading account of the tragic death • ACTION 3: Request an immediate review of the coroner report and of its final verdict Please sign the petition to support these demands and share as widely as you can thank you!

Other people should join me in this campaigne because there has been many issues lately with the tullamore skate scene as the park is an unsafe place and the skatepark no longer feels like a fun place to learn to skate there is many skaters in tullamore and only one skatepark is no longer enough

A recent Journal investigates report has highlighted a major issue in relation to private nursing homes here in Ireland. Families being threatened with evictions of their loved ones for simply raising concerns relating to the care of their loved one.  With over 80% of nursing homes in Ireland now being privately owned and operated the government need to step in and protect the most vulnerable people within our society. These private nursing homes are paid public money through the so called "Fair Deal" scheme and the provide a public service in terms of long term care.  The report highlighted how families who raised concerns over the level of care provided to their loved one, were then threatened with eviction. This leads to an imbalance of power, where the nursing home has control over a persons place within the system. That imbalance of power needs to be corrected and it needs to be done now.  We the undersigned and now calling on Minister of state for older people, to take immediate action to end the cruel practice and to strengthen all laws that protect vulnerable people within private nursing homes. 

For those with small babies, they are left unable to feed their children with no notice. For those unable to travel, they are left with no access to a shop to purchase water. The elderly and vulnerable are left with no heating, and farm animals and pets are left with no drinking water. There is a knock effect for everyone when this basis necessity is taken so regularly, and without warning.  The water rarely, if ever, returns at the aforementioned time, and when it does, it is unusable for at least a whole day after due to the sediment. 

I believe renters should be allowed to use a proven rental payment record in lieu of a large deposit requirement, particularly for first-time buyers with stable employment and strong financial histories. Many renters consistently pay monthly rent that is equal to or higher than a mortgage repayment, often for years without missing payments. This demonstrates financial reliability and repayment ability. However, saving for a deposit while paying high rents has become extremely difficult. Myself and my boyfriend have been renting for the last three years in Bettystown, Co. Meath, paying rent of between 1,300 and 1,500, as a result of renting we have been unable to save up a deposit to buy our own home. We have been paying rent that would be equal or higher to a mortgage repayment. I work in AIB helping others with their mortgages so I know for a fact others pay less for their homes than we pay in rent.  We have a ten month old daughter and we would like to own our own property so she has a home to grow up in, rather than renting where we're not one-hundred percent sure we will be able to live for years to come. It is hard to plan for her future - schools/clubs for her to join - as we are not sure we will still be able to live in this area forever, as much as we would like to. 

In 2021, Uisce Éireann said that the water treatment plant in Ballivor, Meath, was a priority and works to increase the storage capacity would begin shortly. In 2024, they said work would be completed by 2027. We are halfway through 2026 and no work has commenced.  The water tower in Ballivor needs to be refilled too often because it does not have the storage capacity for the amount of houses it supplies. People are left without water for prolonged periods as a result. There have been parents of newborns left without water to clean bottles, elderly people who can’t even fill their kettle, and appliances damaged from the residual buildup pumped from the outdated tower.

We are calling on Wicklow County Council to urgently provide appropriate emergency accommodation for a Bray-based mother and her two children with additional needs, who are now just days away from eviction. Recent reporting in the Bray People has highlighted the family’s situation, including the imminent loss of their home and the significant challenges they face in meeting the needs of two children requiring additional care and stability. This mother has lived and worked in Bray her entire life and is well known within the local community, making this situation all the more distressing for those who know the family and understand their circumstances. Facing homelessness is distressing for any family, but it is particularly critical in cases involving children with additional needs, where disruption can have serious impacts on wellbeing, routine, and access to essential supports. We recognise the pressures on housing services, but situations like this require immediate and compassionate intervention.

The Road R741 from Crosstown to Castlebridge is unsafe and unfit for its purpose.  12000+ cars use this stretch of road every day, a ten fold increase over the last 2 decades. Over the years, there have been fatalities and recently many near misses with pedestrians and cyclists - some instances where they have been knocked over.  Elderly people, parents with children and disabled people using mobility scooters are forced directly onto the road where public footpaths end abruptly and verges are unsafe. The roads unsuitable resurfacing and lack of infrastructure and drainage has meant the verge is now at a sharp angle, where you can no longer safely walk. The danger is increased in wet weather. From Crosstown service station to Castlebridge, the speed limit increases from 60 to 80 km/h, while public footpaths and cycle lanes suddenly end. Unsafe verges mean pedestrians are forced directly onto the roads surface.    Houses along the road are in dips as a result of careless resurfacing - where the road is now bowed - causing flooding with damages of over €30,000.  This applies to a stretch of road just 1.2 miles long where cycle lanes and public footpaths end in abruptly in Crosstown and begin again in Castlebridge - how are pedestrians and cyclists supposed to travel safely without these measures? 

Job creation, housing, and much needed investment and rejuvenation of St Patrick's street

Please sign my petition and support me in gaining suitable emergency accommodation supports from Donegal County Council.