Councillor Oisín O'Connor

Go neirí leat Niall!

Delighted that my nomination as Green Party Candidate for Galway West By-election has now been ratified by the executive. Looking forward to working with members and supporters in the campaign ahead.

A new Ireland Thinks poll, commissioned by An Taisce, reveals Irish public appear at odds with Government’s application for a derogation from EU Nitrates Directive.

It comes days before a crucial EU vote on the derogation expected on December 9th.

Full results:
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Thanks Jamie!

We won't always make popular decisions but at the very least we could make fair decisions.

Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil would prefer to angrily shut down debate, rather than hear criticism of their rent hikes on the least well off while giving the maximum tax cut to homeowners.

New DART and Luas lines, which ALREADY HAVE planning permission, are being delayed 4-5 years. This is a direct consequence of the Government’s decision to spend less on public transport.

Today, I saw a driver overtake a stopped bus and plough through a pedestrian crossing. He beeped three times as he sped though. The beeping was to warn people because, as he had overtaken a bus, he had zero visibility of who was about to step out onto the crossing.

But sure, more hi-vis, everyone

Focussing on what the victim is wearing, ok.

Please enforce the law on all road users rather than this nonsense.

What are the maps?

Shovel-ready Luas and Dart projects delayed “to free up funding for more roads” The Government is delaying shovel-ready public transport projects such as Dart+ South West and Luas Finglas in order “to free up funding for more roads”, the Green Party’s transpo…

Every single Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil TD lied to the public that they would continue investing in public transport - just with more roads also.

And they continue to lie about their level of support for public transport. Worth remembering.
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Would love bike bunkers to be looked at here where they work best. They seem to be concentrated in areas with terraced houses? We do have some areas of terraced houses in DLR, but much much less than DCC. Most common housing type here is semi-D with side access.

I'm looking for the council to support more estates and apartment developments with this project, so let me know if you're living in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and interested to know more.

Have you lived somewhere with no secure, sheltered bike parking?

Lack of decent parking at home is a big barrier.

I worked with the Belarmine RA and the council to run a pilot to see could we support residents in a practical way with advice and funding.

#stepaside #belarmine #cycling #bikelife

What do you think? Is it worth it to increase parking charges and council rents without seeing any improvement in services next year?

I'll continue to work on improving things for my area, but it's likely to be harder to get basic services now with FG&FF's mismanagement of the council's finances.

The spending increases your local FG councillor is ecstatic about, will not improve local services.

After inflation & population growth, spending on libraries & street cleaning will be down next year.

Spending "increases" like housing & parks will be swallowed up by inflation and growth in demand.

A large supermarket near me would see a €500 per month increase and the small café next door would pay €18 a month more.

Relatively small costs for the businesses to absorb. Certainly a better option than increasing rent by €18 a month for people on disability.

To balance the books this would be funded by a minor increase in Commercial Rates from 0.214 to 0.221, still much lower than Dublin City's rate of 0.289.

DLR also has a generous and progressive rates refund for small&medium sized ratepayers.

The rent increases Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are imposing on people will mean an extra €4 a week for people on Disability Allowance or the State pension.

The Local Property Tax cut this year saved the owners of €1.4m homes that same €4 a week. How is this fair?

The Green alternative budget for 2026:
- no increase in rents* for 4,000 households including council and HAP tenants
- no increase in parking charges
- no increase in Ballyogan Recycling Centre fees
- no vacancy subsidy for commercial building owners
- increase in funding for community events

Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil had the chance to spread the load, but chose to target people on low incomes to balance the books.

Why? They simply don't care about people who are truly struggling right now. They showed who they are: they voted to prioritise big business and owners of expensive homes.

Councillors voted last night for higher rents and higher parking charges. I want to be clear I voted against these.

We put forward an alternative budget for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown that was fair, balanced and fully costed. Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil councillors were the only ones to vote against it.

Stephen Daedalus Airport.

I'm in Dún Laoghaire County Hall to scrutinise and vote on the council's 2026 budget.

The draft budget presented by the Chief Executive is for €313.7m across all the services the council delivers.

Any questions?

Note: this budget doesn't include capital projects which is managed separately.

I'm in Dún Laoghaire County Hall to scrutinise and vote on the council's 2026 budget.

The draft budget presented by the Chief Executive is for €313.7m across all the services the council delivers.

Any questions?

Note: this budget doesn't include capital projects which is managed separately.

Numbers of homes built, that's all they care about.

The Belmont reservoir saga in Sandyford/Stepaside has run on for many years since planning permission was given back in 2011.

A lesson for planners on how not to give disappearing developers a way to wriggle out of their commitments. #sandyford #stepaside #disappearingdevelopers

Letter to our public transport CEOs Open Letter to CEO of the National Transport Authority, Anne Shaw, CEO of Dublin Bus Billy Hann, Managing Director of Go Ahead Ireland Dervla McKay

I've written to the CEOs of the NTA, Dublin Bus and Go Ahead Ireland: here's 6 things they need to sort out.

More homes have been built here than any other part of Ireland, but our public transport users are treated like dirt.
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Good morning from Sandyford's newest power station.

Where are we and how much electricity are we generating?

#Sandyford #GreenEnergy #Solar #Renewables

A fire erupted in a pavilion of the UN’s climate talks in Brazil today, forcing panicked delegates to run for the exits and disrupting tense negotiations among ministers from around the world.
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‘I support our local Christmas tree farms’ – councillor criticises initiative ‘promoting unaffordable plastic trees’ Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council’s (DLR) new recycling campaign is “greenwashing” plastic Christmas trees at the expense of local Christmas tree farms, according to a local councillor.

Pinch yourself, you're not dreaming.

Local Green Party councillor calls out anti-farmer, anti-local business campaign by Fine Gael Cathaoirleach.
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