Below is a PDF file of the Draft Tree strategy for Dublin City. There is an opportunity for people who live in Dublin to comment and give observations and suggestions on ‘treeing’ your City.
‘Something to Live for’ – Installation at The Ivy/Oak -Parliament Street 2016
Here’s wishing all those elected to represent the people of Ireland the very best. Reconnect the people to the Dáil the Dáil to it’s people.
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny)
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny)
Brendan Smith (Cavan Monaghan)
Niamh Smyth (Cavan Monaghan)
Timmy Dooley (Clare)
Kevin O’Keefe (Cork East)
Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central)
Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West)
Michael Moynihan (Cork North West)
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central)
Micheál Martin (Cork South Central)
Margaret Murphy O’Mahony (Cork South West)
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal)
Pat ‘The Cope’ Gallagher (Donegal)
Sean Haughey (Dublin Bay North)
Jim O’Callaghan (Dublin Bay South)
Darragh O’Brien (Dublin Fingal)
John Curran (Dublin Mid West)
John Lahart (Dublin South West)
Jack Chambers (Dublin West)
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East)
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West)
John Brassil (Kerry)
Frank O’Rourke (Kildare North)
James Lawless (Kildare North)
Fiona O’Loughlin (Kildare South)
Seán O’Feargháil (Kildare South)
Sean Fleming (Laois)
Willie O’Dea (Limerick City)
Niall Collins (Limerick County)
Robert Troy (Longford Westmeath)
Declan Breathnach (Louth)
Dara Calleary (Mayo)
Lisa Chambers (Mayo)
Thomas Byrne (Meath East)
Shane Cassells (Meath West)
Barry Cowen (Offaly)
Eugene Murphy (Roscommon Galway)
Marc MacSharry (Sligo Leitrim)
Jackie Cahill (Tipperary)
Mary Butler (Waterford)
James Browne (Wexford)
Pat Casey (Wicklow)
Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim)
John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny)
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny)
Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan)
Pat Breen (Clare)
Joe Carey (Clare)
David Stanton (Cork East)
Dara Murphy (Cork North Central)
Michael Creed (Cork North West)
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central)
Jim Daly (Cork South West)
Joe McHugh (Donegal)
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North)
Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South)
Kate O’Connell (Dublin Bay South)
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central)
Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal)
Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West)
Noel Rock (Dublin North-West)
Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown)
Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central)
Colm Brophy (Dublin South West)
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West)
Maria Bailey (Dun Laoghaire)
Sean Barrett (Dun Laoghaire) – automatically re-elected
Mary Mitchell O’Connor (Dun Laoghaire)
Ciaran Cannon (Galway East)
Sean Kyne (Galway West)
Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West)
Brendan Griffin (Kerry)
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North)
Martin Heydon (Kildare South)
Charlie Flanagan (Laois)
Michael Noonan (Limerick City)
Patrick O’Donovan (Limerick County)
Tom Neville (Limerick County)
Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth)
Fergus O’Dowd (Louth)
Enda Kenny (Mayo)
Michael Ring (Mayo)
Helen McEntee (Meath East)
Regina Doherty (Meath East)
Damien English (Meath West)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly)
Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim)
John Deasy (Waterford)
Micheal D’Arcy (Wexford)
Paul Kehoe (Wexford)
Andrew Doyle (Wicklow)
Simon Harris (Wicklow)
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South)
Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown)
Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North)
Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown)
Sean Canney (Galway East)
Kevin “Boxer ” Moran (Longford Westmeath)
Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon Galway)
John Halligan (Waterford)
Michael Harty (Clare)
Michael Collins (Cork South West)
Thomas Pringle (Donegal)
Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North)
Maureen O’Sullivan (Dublin Central)
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal)
Joan Collins (Dublin South Central)
Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West)
Catherine Connolly (Galway West)
Noel Grealish (Galway West)
Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry)
Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry)
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway)
Michael Lowry (Tipperary)
Mattie McGrath (Tipperary)
Seamus Healy (Tipperary)
Mick Wallace (Wexford)
Sean Sherlock (Cork East)
Brendan Ryan (Dublin Fingal)
Joan Burton (Dublin West)
Jan O’Sullivan (Limerick City)
Alan Kelly (Tipperary)
Brendan Howlin (Wexford)
Mick Barry (Cork North Central)
Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West)
Paul Murphy (Dublin South West)
Ruth Coppinger (Dublin West)
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dun Laoghaire)
Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central)
Kathleen Funchion (Carlow Kilkenny)
Caoimhghin Ó Caoláin (Cavan Monaghan)
Pat Buckley (Cork East)
Jonathan O’Brien (Cork North Central)
Donnchadh O’Laoghaire (Cork South Central)
Pearse Doherty (Donegal)
Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central)
Denise Mitchell (Dublin Bay North)
Louise O’Reilly (Dublin Fingal)
Eoin O’Broin (Dublin Mid West)
Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West)
Aengus Ó’Snodaigh (Dublin South Central)
Sean Crowe (Dublin South West)
Martin Ferris (Kerry)
Brian Stanley (Laois)
Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City)
Gerry Adams (Louth)
Imelda Munster (Louth)
Peadar Tóibín (Meath West)
Carol Nolan (Offaly)
Martin Kenny (Sligo Leitrim)
David Cullinane (Waterford)
John Brady (Wicklow)
Roisín Shortall (Dublin North West)
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North)
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow)
Tomorrow at the Housing committee meeting in Dublin City Council I will be calling on Fr Peter McVerry to withdraw his name from the process of ‘Freedom of the City’ in solidarity with the homeless of this city and country on the grounds of principal, ethics and morality. Accepting such an award would give an impression that this task of ending homelessness is somewhat complete when nothing could be further from the truth. Many of those agencies who are involved with homeless individuals and families are now in the ‘business’ of merely carrying out Government policy which has done absolutely nothing to address the issues of the many homeless on the streets of our country and the thousands on the city council’s and county council housing waiting lists. Tonight, and throughout the cold winter nights and days, the homeless will be left wandering our streets when the Government and its agents are merely warehousing the problem. Charity is not the solution to homelessness. Homelessness is a political issue that needs to be kept on all the political agendas. It is not the time to be singling out any individual or organization involved in the issues of homelessness for freedom of Dublin city. It is well acknowledged the good work that Peter McVerry has done in saving lives and assisting individuals and we are all very grateful for that but if he was to decline this offer and stand in solidarity with those who find themselves in a hopeless situation that would be greatly appreciated and warmly welcomed and it would send a strong message to those who think to appease the situation, minimize the situation, and exploit the situation with a pseudo gesture like this. This has all the hallmarks of a cynical exercise by an individual politician as we enter into the Christmas season when the poor, the homeless, the disempowered are patronized and further marginalized.
Mannix Flynn 