Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, raised the issue of water charges for schools at a recent meeting of the Water and Environmental Services committee of Wicklow County Council.
Cllr de Burca referred to a recent letter of complaint she had received from the National School in Donard which had just received a bill for over [...]

Following a presentation of the Replacement Wicklow Waste Management Plan to the council’s Water and Environment Services committee this week, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca has called the Plan a “charter for the private waste sector”.
The Green Party councillor states that she is particularly concerned that the Plan does not contain any provisions for [...]

The Green Party has accused the Government of undermining local democracy with today’s publication of the Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006. According to Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, The Bill will do little to speed up major projects, but will instead dramatically curtail the public’s participation in the planning process.
Cllr de Burca [...]

Focus on Wicklow
Wicklow Newsletter of Spring 2006

The Green Party has welcomed the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) refusal to grant a licence for the construction of a dump on the Roadstone site in Blessington Co. Wicklow where up to 110,000 tonnes of illegal waste is buried in a 600-acre site.
Green Party Environment spokesperson, Ciarán Cuffe TD said that, “It is good to [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca has declared herself shocked over a recent decision in which the quarry operator of a site in Ballylusk Ashford won an appeal in relation to the issue of the Gardai accompanying dynamite to the controversial quarry site. The Green Party councillor was reacting to the recent success of the [...]

Green Party councillor on Wicklow County Council, Deirdre de Burca, has welcomed the new Draft Local Area plan for the Marlton Rd, Wicklow Town. The Draft plan will be discussed and amended by councillors at their meeting on Monday 13th February and will then go out on public display in March.
“I am very pleased with [...]

At a recent meeting of Wicklow County Council at which a proposal to locate a council reservoir on Roadstone’s land at Glen Ding, Blessington was discussed by councillors, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca stated that the proposal was a “scandal”.
Councillor de Burca pointed out that the site in question was subject to a High [...]

Following a recent packed public meeting in Greystones about the proposed harbour development, Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, claims that public opposition to the proposed development is growing. “Many people in the town were only vaguely aware of what was being proposed for the harbour development until lately” says de Burca. “However, the activities [...]

Green Party councillor and Cathaoirleach of Bray Town Council welcomed this week’s relocation of the travellers who have been living at the illegal encampment at Hollybrook, Bray.
The illegal traveller’s encampment at Hollybrook, next to the roundabout at Hills Garage, has existed for the past eight years. The site has been the subject of many complaints [...]