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Next Public Café dates: Insomnia at Lidl Shackleton, Adamstown, Friday 16th 10-11am Monday 19th - Clondalkin tbc, likely Mill Centre 10-11am Tuesday 20th - Copper Kettle Rathcoole 10-11am I regularly visit cafés throughout the constituency, making myself available to residents who may be about at the time and who have issues or queries to share. I am also on hand to sign statutory documents as a Peace Commissioner. "Not just at election time" - Any time! NB - this is separa

This is the location for all my Dáil contributions for this period. I will try and have short cuts put in shortly.

Rolling report following commencement of works in village at Green, Demesne and Weir including comprehensive details from public consultation in 2021/22. More recent updates include inputs from Cllr Helen Farrell. Answers to questions posed by Lucan Newsletter, including costs here . --- 12th January 2026 update from Helen Information from the monthly meeting today (quotes are from SDCC not us): "We are nearing completion on the major public realm upgrades in Lucan Village wh

Previous rolling report of many here: https://www.paulgogarty.com/post/lucan-pool-progress-july-to-october-2025 12th January 2026 (from Cllr Helen Farrell) - Pool to get test fills in the next week This was originally scheduled for last April, but CEO Colm Ward announced at the monthly Council meeting today that the pool is being filled for testing this week, with the anticipated handover to the operator Aura scheduled for the end of next month. We just got reports in that t

Quick Links: Adamstown Community College - Coláiste Bríde - Coláiste Phádraig - St Joseph's College - The Kings Hospital School  - St Vincent's Secondary School Great to meet so many students from Dublin Mid-West schools on Friday 9th January last and it was lovely to see so many interesting and really informative projects. Thanks to Rebecca at main sponsor Stripe for her help in showing us around. Congratulations to overall winner Aoibheann Daly for her project “GlioSco

Effective for Palmerstown and Chapelizod residents from Sunday February 8th next, but merger with 130 route still on the cards. The NTA could have saved themselves a lot of trouble if they had taken on board the results of my survey when I sent it in originally and when I pointed out the obvious issues face to face. Instead they have done several tweaks and a u-turn on something they claimed was not possible earlier, a route further up the quays, but only following massive pr

Presentation given at Land Use, Planning and Transportation Strategic Policy Committee in November, which Cllr Helen Farrell sits on… See slides below, but also please note that: Swimming pool plans have been scrapped in Adamstown SDCC have agreed to front load housing on foot of a request from Government meaning the library project is delayed a year or so. There’s an additional public amenity going in also down the line but the Council has scrapped plans for a swimming pool,

Dáil contributions second half of 2025

https://consult.sdublincoco.ie/en/consultation/proposed-material-alterations-variation-no-1-county-development-plan-draft-clondalkin-local-planning Following on from the pre-consultation, SDCC has now produced a draft plan based on submissions from local residents as well as some elected representatives. It’s hugely regrettable that the Council decided to launch this before Christmas, but at least the deadline is not until January. —- Some details are listed below, but its im

Rolling update following news reports on 22nd May 2025 - and confirmation on 17th June - of Government plans to purchase part of the former Citywest Hotel and Conference Centre site, currently used as an IPAS centre. This news has caused concern in terms of local capacity as well as the long-term loss of a valuable community amenity for the residents of Saggart, Citywest and Rathcoole. The former golf course of the hotel has already got planning permission as a cemetery . I

Rolling updates have been going on since 2022. Click here for the previous update March-June 2025 . Cllr Helen Farrell and I will be updating further as more news becomes available. 2nd December 2025 - Is there a tiny light at the end of the tunnel? I attended a briefing for TDs at SDCC offices yesterday (fuller report later) and attached below is the reply I received on Lucan Pool, which is similar to that received by Cllr Helen Farrell last week. It mentions Q1, 2026 for co

I was the only TD in Dublin Mid-West to vote to ban fox hunting on 17th December 2025. Unfortunately because Sinn Féin, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael applied a whip instead of allowing an open vote, the Bill to ban was defeated by 124 votes to 24. This does not reflect the wishes of Irish people where 80% want to see a ban, including a huge amount of residents of rural Ireland. Cover photo courtesy of Ban Bloodsports on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16efpvounj/ The An