Acknowledging the role technology has to play in supporting our local communities and businesses, I welcome the news that €275 million will be invested in broadband. This means that every house in the country will have access to 30 megabit broadband by the end of 2020. The funding for broadband was announced today as part […]
The Kildare Business Wisdom Council, who were responsible for the hugely successful Busk and Food Festival earlier this year, is in the process of planning a Christmas Market in the Town Hall for this Christmas. As a founder member of the group I am particularly eager that the development and the setting up of the […]
The Development of Newbridge Town Hall While I am delighted at the allocation of €400,000 last year to refurbish Newbridge Town Hall ( see pictures of the interior now being revealed inch by glorious inch ) the veil of secrecy around its development is unacceptable to me both as a public representative and as a […]
I am concerned at the incorrect use of ‘in committee’ meetings within the Council. For those not familiar with officialese ‘in committee’ is similar in effect to ‘in camera’ and means that the meeting is private, no minutes are kept and no-one may discuss the meeting in public subsequently. Kildare-Newbridge municipal district has had ‘in […]
300,000 homes in Ireland had access to high speed broadband in 2011. That figure has now risen to 1.3 million in 2015. “By the end of 2016, commercial providers will be delivering high-speed broadband to 1.6 million addresses. The Government will intervene directly to bring high-speed broadband to the rest,”. A pilot programme will be […]
My second motion in Septembers Municipal Distrtict was “that the council provide details of derelict sites/buildings in the district with an update on how many there are and where, how many have been assessed for dereliction in the last year versus how many were actually designated derelict and the outcome or consequences in each case […]
My second question at Septembers Municipal District meeting was, Can the council give a breakdown of the entire funding of the town hall works and where it has come from, including the reasons for the recent increased budget requirement, bringing the previous €400,000 budgeted for completion of the town hall (excepting exterior works) to […]
One of my questions in Septembers Municipal District meeting was “Why were the councillors who had used their allocation of monthly motions/questions to find out where the artwork commissioned for Georges’s Street in 2009, since left in storage, not invited to or even made aware of a visit facilitated by the council, to which traders […]
The Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Paudie Coffey T.D, has made new amendment regulations which remove the mandatory requirement for statutory certificates of compliance in respect of a new dwelling on a single unit development or a domestic extension. An owner, which includes self-builders, of such projects […]
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Each year we seek to build the capacity of enterprise to create jobs. The actions being taken are making a difference. We need to make sure enterprise knows what is available. I have set out here important supports for: Starting Up Access to Finance Recruiting Exporting and Innovation Finding […]