Too many trees are cut down for the use of palm oil

Petition in Dublin city against the use of drones to deliver food.

Keep the passenger cap at Dublin Airport - a first step for the aviation sector in Ireland to do its fair share to help protect children from climate harm. Children’s futures depend on urgent climate action from EVERY sector and Government must include aviation in national climate efforts.

[email protected] Dear Minister Patrick O'Donovan, I am writing as one of the 2,000 recipients of the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA) pilot scheme, which is due to end this August. With no clear decision yet communicated, many of us are facing serious stress and uncertainty. The BIA has been a life-changing support—providing €325 per week, taxed and declared as self-employed income, with full accountability through regular surveys and detailed time logging. This is not a handout; it is recognition of creative work as real, valuable labour. The 2025 report by Dr. Jenny Dagg shows that this scheme has improved financial stability, artistic output, and wellbeing. Its recipients represent the full diversity of Irish artists across disciplines, regions, and career stages. We now urgently call on you to retain the BIA for current recipients, extend the scheme into the future, and expand access to all eligible artists in Ireland. To end the scheme now, with no transition plan, would damage not only the lives of artists but Ireland’s entire cultural ecosystem. Please act now. Keep the BIA alive. Support Ireland’s artists. Secure the future of our cultural sector. Sincerely, [Your Name]

We want zero-waste shopping brought to Dunshaughlin! ‘Sick Of Plastic’ in Dunshaughlin is aiming for less waste produced in our town. With the new Aldi coming in, it’s the perfect opportunity for us to show them we want, and need, plastic-free shopping facilities in Dunshaughlin. Supermarkets have incredible influence and power over the waste produced in a community, and they are responsible for the choices offered to us as shoppers. We need to demand packaging free products at equal prices. Now is the perfect time to include plans for a zero waste section in the new Aldi.

To whom it may concern, My name is Constance McKenna and I am expressing concern towards Dublin City Council to change the nature of the Georgian building which was the setting for the story by James Joyce “The Dead” and the film 1987, and convert to private apartments.  I urge you to reconsider this decision. We must protect our heritage. Through literature, cinema and architecture. Many thanks for taking the time to read this message. Yours Sincerely, Constance McKenna

The people of Dublin Fingal went to the polls on the 8th of February 2020 to vote for their GE2020 candidate. Similar to the rest of the country the people made it clear that change was needed and people were no longer happy with a FF or FG led government. We the undersigned demand that the outgoing government of FF and FG put their differences aside and either; a) Form a government based on the will of the people regardless of what party they belong to OR b) Declare this election as void and go back to the polls for the people to decide on who they want to govern them.

Please hold a referendum to let the public decide on the minimum legal age for Smart Phones

From a small initiative begun in schools in the Dun Laoghaire Constituency, parents and school community members from all over Ireland are coming together to demand better for all our children. Specifically, we are calling for better provision of resources for children with additional needs, more Special Education Teachers (SETs) & Special Needs Assistants (SNAs) to ensure best equality of opportunity for all children in every school. We need candidates running in the upcoming General Election to really understand the struggles our schools, pupils & their families, teachers, principals, SETs & SNAs are experiencing in trying to provide an education to all children of all abilities. Currently, there is an enormous deficit in the provision of assessments, diagnoses, therapeutic services and a full complement of SET hours and SNA support in schools. Our goal is a fully inclusive education system where every child has the opportunity to flourish. Our demand for The Right Inclusion Model for Every Child calls for the State to provide for the rights of every child in Ireland to an education. To respect the rights of all of our children, sufficient resources and support must be provided to every child to meet their own individual needs.  Under the current model, inadequate resourcing means that children are not guaranteed their right to equal access to education. We want to achieve cross-party support for The Right Inclusion Model for Every Child ahead of the General Election and to have the principles of this model included on the next Programme for Government.   We’ve identified key improvements needed in the current system that need to be urgently addressed or the pupils in each & every school will be impacted.   The Right Inclusion Model for Every Child must include: Enough child-centred supports & resources to match needs rather than budget; Enough class teachers; Enough Special Needs Teachers for children who need them; Enough Special Needs Assistants for children who need them; Enough assessments available for children who need them; Enough therapists to work with children who need them; Enough mental health professionals available to work with children who need them; Enough options for children and their families: To have options of placements in mainstream schools, special classes in schools, and special schools according to each child’s needs. Transparency in the Process: Meaningful consultation with schools, parents and children’s advocacy groups is necessary to inform the right inclusion model.  Specific Problems that can be addressed by this pledge: - Changing the criteria for access to supports has increased the pressure on schools who are without adequate resources.  - Directing parents to schools for access to psychological assessments (via NEPs) is not meeting the needs of children as there is a massive shortfall in allocation of these assessments. - Speech and Language, behavioural and psychological programmes formerly provided by trained professionals to children in schools cannot be outsourced to teachers (as envisaged by HSE strategies). The provision of these professional services directly from Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Psychologists and Psychiatrists needs to be restored to schools. We are asking every representative and candidates in the General Election to pledge to deliver The Right Inclusion Model for Every Child as a matter of priority in the next government.

Ireland needs a comprehensive, zero covid strategy. A zero covid strategy would mean that Ireland would not have or maintain the active, uncontrolled, spread of the virus within the community. It would involve a combination of our current restrictions (for a period of time), adding in aggressive public health measures (contract tracing, case finding, testing, supported isolation), managing the Northern Irish border fairly and reasonably (in agreement with NI), and quarantining visitors in hotels (not including lorry drivers, cabin crew & sailors who would be managed separately). New Zealand is proof that a Zero Covid strategy works extremely effectively and efficiently. Enough is enough. We’ve spent the last year in a perpetual cycle of lockdowns, it evidently does NOT work. We have been in lockdown 3 since the start of January and it will continue until at least the beginning of April. That is 3 months, had we introduced a zero covid strategy at the beginning of this lockdown perhaps things would already be going back to ‘normal’. We are experiencing all of the pain of extreme lockdowns without any of the gain. For most, a zero covid strategy would not currently change much about their day-to-day life but it would give us all back our freedom in the near future. Ireland currently has the toughest lockdown restrictions in Europe and the 3rd toughest restrictions globally. It’s time to take a stand. Sign this petition to force the Irish government to implement a comprehensive Zero Covid strategy. This isn’t just a bad handling of a national emergency, it’s an unacceptable handling of a national emergency, they are failing us. They have had every opportunity to produce an effective living with Covid strategy and yet after weeks and month of waiting nothing has come to fruition. Sign this petition to show the Irish government that our only logical next option is to introduce a Zero Covid strategy.