Green Party councillor and Chairperson of Bray Town Council, Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed the recent allocation by the Department of the Environment of almost 18 million euros to County Wicklow for non-national roads. She said that this funding was particularly welcome because non-national roads have tended to be overlooked in terms of investment in [...]

The Cathaoirleach of Bray Town Council and Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has said that the Bray- Greystones Cliff Walk is in need of ongoing maintenance and repair works. Cllr de Burca made her remarks after walking from Bray to Greystones with other members of the Bray Electoral Area Committee. The councillors were accompanied [...]

Green Party councillors on Bray Town Council have welcomed the council’s recent decision to refuse a planning application by Suntec Developments Ltd for the demolition of three dormer bungalows and the construction of 86 apartments on the Herbert Rd, Bray.
Bray Town Council planning staff acknowledged that the planning application had generated an unusually high number [...]

The Green Party has welcomed the publication by the Environmental Protection Agency of National Waste Report 2004. Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca said “we need more options than bury it or burn waste. We need to focus on two areas; reduction in the levels of waste we produce and development of an Irish recycling [...]

The Bray Draft Budget came in for widespread criticism from all political parties at the first meeting of Bray Town Council after the Christmas break. Green Party councillors reserved most of their criticism for Minister Dick Roche who, they claimed, had only provided a 5% increase in the Local Government Fund for Bray Town Council.
According [...]

At a recent meeting of Wicklow County Council at which the Draft Development Plan for Arklow Environs was discussed by councillors, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca claimed that the plan was not strong enough in relation to flood protection.
“I am aware that despite many promises made in 2002 by politicians who belong the current [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, rejected a recent recommendation from Wicklow County Council’s Housing Strategic Policy Committee that the selection of sites for traveller’s halting bays in the north of the county should be a matter for the council officials.
The committee recommended that the council adopt a policy that one five-bay halting site be [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, has called on residents of Greystones to submit any objections or proposed changes to the proposed harbour development to an Bord Pleanala by February 15th.
“Wicklow County Council published its Environmental Impact Statement in relation to the proposed harbour development on December 22nd” says de Burca. “This means that members [...]