78TH PLENARY SESSION
Thank you, Chairman.  Chairman, I would like to thank both speakers for their presentation this morning and I think we are discussing a very pertinent question here: is a social Europe what citizens want? 
I suppose I would ask the question: well how would we know what citizens want, because it is interesting to note that although [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca, yesterday voted against a proposed Variation to the Greystones Local Area Plan which proposed changing part of the zoning of the Burnaby from R3 to RE. The Greystones Plan was adopted in December 2006 and recognised part of the Burnaby as an Architectural Conservation Area (ACA). The area which [...]

Green Party councillor, Deirdre de Burca welcomed Wicklow County Council’s recent decision to take a number of estates in the county in charge. The taking in charge of an estate means that the council assumes legal responsibility for the maintenance and upkeep of roads, footpaths and, in many cases, public open spaces.
The estates which the [...]

At a recent meeting of Wicklow County Council at which the re-location of St Brigid’s School, Greystones was discussed, Green Party councillor Deirdre de Burca claimed that the council is failing to meet the educational needs of this growing town.
St Brigids is one of two primary schools that serve the residential areas to the north [...]