Responding to the minister in the Dáil today over the water restrictions imposed on Dublin after Storm Emma. Responsibility for water as a utility should never have been taken out of the council’s hands and given to Irish Water.

Due to adverse effects of weather there is an extension of the 2018 Early Years and School Age Capital application window by three working days, to Wednesday the 14th of March 2018 at 3pm.

Services are invited to apply for €6.8m in funding for extra spaces,
natural outdoor play areas and maintenance work, across the following five
strands.

|  Purpose of grant |  Max. Grant
|                   |  available
——————-+——————-+——————-
Strand 1 (Early  |  Expansion/New    |  €50,000
Years)           |                   |
——————-+——————-+——————-
Strand 2 (Early  |  Essential        |  €20,000
Years)           |  Maintenance      |
|  (Community only) |
——————-+——————-+——————-
Strand 3 (Early  |  Natural outdoor  |  €7,000
Years)           |  play area        |
——————-+——————-+——————-
Strand 4 (School |  Expansion/New    |  €20,000
Age)             |                   |
——————-+——————-+——————-
Strand 5 (School |  Essential        |  €10,000
Age)             |  Maintenance      |
|  (Community only) |

Childcare  providers  are  encouraged  to  contact  their local City/County
Childcare  Committee  (CCC)  for  any  help or guidance they may require in
completing  their  applications  for capital funding before the application
window closes.

My constituency office has spoken to City Bins and the following is the bin collection plan for Dublin North West.
If your bin was General Waste (Black Bin) last week, the bin will be collected this Saturday the 10th of March.
If your bin was Green and Brown last week they will be collected next week and they will take any excess recycling materials.
If your bin is the Black bin tomorrow it will be collected as normal.
If you have any other queries you can email them at home@citybin.com or call them at 1800 248924
We have also spoken to Greyhound and they said that if the Recycling bin is due this week it will be taken next week with two extra-large recycling bags, NOT black bags.
The Black bin and compost bin will be taken as normal on the Collection date.  Their contact number is 1890 989 998

Bankers are not above the law. At the moment they are not accountable for their lies and scams. This Sinn Féin bill would change that and under our bill bankers will know that white collar crime would no longer pay.

White collar crime apparantly pays. The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement to date has had no prosecutions or convictions in the last two years. It is beyond belief that those who brought this country to its knees economically have it seems gotten away with it. If you don’t have a TV licence or get a Dog licence you can be sure you will be pursued vigorously.

I proposed in the Dáil today that the Luas be extended from Broombridge to the Airport via Finglas. The population of Finglas is growing and is in urgent need of proper public transport links.

As part of the outreach work I have been doing as the Sinn Féin spokesperson on Drugs and Alcohol misuse I visited Merchants Quay Ireland on a fact finding tour and was kindly shown around their excellent facilities by the CEO Mr. Tony Geoghegan, who kindly give up a couple of hours of his busy schedule to facilitate the meeting and tour. I was privilged also to meet and speak with the dedicatied and hard working staff.

I spoke in the Dáil last night on implementing a social and affordable housing scheme. It is a shocking fact that this government and the previous government have not delivered affordable rental or housing property for purchase through affordable schemes during the lifetime of this current Dáil or through the lifetime of the last Dáil. The housing and homeless crises are this governement’s legacy to the people of Ireland.

Asking the government where is their committment to an Affordable Housing scheme is in their promised legislation for this Dáil session.