Lucinda welcomed the news today that the application for planning permission to build a McDonald’s restaurant and drive-thru in the area of Sandymount and Irishtown has been rejected by Dublin City Council. The application to develop the fast-food restaurant on the site of Winfield Motors and the Maxol station was refused permission on the basis that this was not a permissible use under the zoning of the site, a point which Lucinda had made in her objection to the application.

I have been monitoring the site of Winfield Motors at the junction of Church Avenue and Beach Road in Sandymount, and had been contacted in recent months by residents who were concerned about the possible uses it could be put to.

When an application was recently submitted to develop a takeaway restaurant and “drive-thru” on the site, I discussed the issue with residents in the area, who are unilateral in their oppostion.

I have therefore submitted the following objection to Dublin City Council against the proposal: (more…)

I am regularly contacted by constituents affected by unemployment who need information on education and training opportunities, social welfare entitlements, and other information related to coping with the recession. To address these matters I have arranged a public information seminar on unemployment issues. I held one recently in the Dublin 4 area that was very well attended, so I am now organising a second one.

Lucinda

Venue: Garda Club, 8-10 Harrington St, Portobello, Dublin 8

When: 21st June 2010, 7:00PM

Participants:

I am regularly contacted by constituents affected by unemployment who need information on education and training opportunities, social welfare entitlements, and other information related to coping with the recession. To address these matters I have arranged a public information seminar on unemployment issues.

Lucinda

Participants:

Speech on the Adjournment of the Dáil

I would like to raise on the adjournment the reports of mismanagement of Government funds by the Dublin Inner City Partnership, the resignations from the Partnership and the withdrawal of Pobal funding to the Partnership.

I am pleased to have an opportunity to raise this very serious and important matter in regard to the expenditure of public moneys. The Minister of State will be aware that the Dublin Inner City Partnership was established in 1991, one of 12 development companies under the programme for economic and social progress at the time. The aim of this partnership was to fund community groups and to fund projects in disadvantaged areas, including those most affected by abject poverty in the State. (more…)