Councillor Dermot Lacey

dublin city council

Post Archive


  • Council Matters – 4th anniversary show

    This week I appeared on the 4th anniversary edition of Dublin City FM’s Council Matters.  It’s a great weekly show about local politics.  You can listen to or watch my contribution below.

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  • Letter to the Editor: Data Protection & Housing

    The Editor, Letters Page, The Irish Times.   Dear Editor,   Bon Frewen  (letters 17th August) rightly questions the role of the Data Protection Commissioner. The same Commissioner has recently blocked Councillors from exercising our supervisory role (not an allocation role) in relation to Housing in Dublin City Council. This does not serve citizens well.…

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  • Longboat Quay

    Article published in the Evening Herald, Thursday 1st October 2015 Imagine the joy of moving into your nice new shiny apartment in the nice new shiny Dublin Docklands. Dreams and hopes of a good life ahead. Thoughts of walking to work in shiny new Google land up the road, going to the theatre in the…

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  • Poolbeg decision was wrong, but so is attack on the City Manager

    Article published in the Evening Herald, 27th August  2015 It is rare that I come to the rescue of Dublin City Council chief executive Owen Keegan and, as a 15-year campaigner against the Poolbeg incinerator it might be surprising that I do. However, the populist attacks on him by some politicians for simply doing the…

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  • Decision by ESB on Poolbeg Chimneys to be welcomed but action to have them included on list of Protected Structures will continue

    While I welcome this interim proposed action by the ESB there is still a need to ensure that their final retention is a matter for the elected representatives of the people of Dublin through the City Council. The fact is that these Chimneys are now seen by many Dubliners as Icons of our Industrial heritage…

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  • Motion on Greyhound industrial dispute

    I recently submitted the following motion to Dublin City Council: “The Council requests that in light of the on-going industrial dispute at Greyhound Recovery and Recycling and the multiple infringements by the company to bylaws, the Waste Collection Permit, Health and Safety and Environmental Protection legislation, which the company has committed since it locked out…

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  • Sinn Féin should get brass neck award

    “The demand from Sinn Féin that Local Authorities must receive 80% of all funds raised in their areas through the Local Property Tax must surely earn them the title “Brass Neck Hypocrites of the Year”,” according to former Lord Mayor of Dublin and Leader of the Labour Group on Dublin City Council, Councillor Dermot Lacey.…

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  • Dublin City Street Sweeping Schedule

    The City Council has just published the street sweeping schedule, which may be of interest. Essentially, the 3,500 streets in Dublin are organised into 4 categories that determine how often they are swept.  The highest footfall streets (such as Grafton St) are attended to at least daily, while smaller, less busy, streets are swept quarterly.…

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  • 2012 Christmas & New Year Waste Services Arrangements

    BRING CENTRE OPENING TIMES Opening hours for Bring Centres located at Collins Avenue (Opposite DCU entrance) Oscar Taynor Road, Coolock , Windmill Road, Crumlin Gulistan Terrace, Rathmines are listed below. CLOSED OPEN OPENING HOURS Sunday 23rd Dec 2012 Sat 22nd Dec 2012 10am – 4 pm Mon 24th Dec 2012 Thurs 27th Dec 2012 9am…

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  • Household Bulky Waste / Junk Collection

    A household bulky waste / junk collection service will this week in many areas of Dublin South East.  The following streets will be covered: MONDAY 12/11/2012 PARK AVE ST JOHNS RD WILLOW FIELD KIRK WOOD PARK LANE PARK COURT TUESDAY 13/11/2012 MERRION RD TO AILSBURY ROAD DODDER VIEW COTTAGE/BALLSBRIDGE AVE  /HERBERT COTTAGE SERPENTINE TEC SERPENTINE…

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