Kieran’s Question to CE and Motions, Cork City Council Meeting, 10 February 2020

 Question to CE:

To ask the CE about the mechanisms in place to combat homelessness this past winter season in the city?

How many homelessness cases on the streets in the two weeks of January 2020?

Are their beds available for all homelessness at this point in time in the city

How many emergency accommodation units are there?

To ask for the breakdown of finance given to housing homeless agencies in the city in 2019 and to be allocated in 2020? (Cllr Kieran McCarthy)

Motions:

That road safety measures be again looked at the junction of Ballinlough Road and Bellair Estate. The corner of Old Lady of Lourdes National School is a blind corner and has many people crossing this dangerous stretch of road everyday (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).

That the public lighting on Wallace’s Avenue, Ballinlough be improved (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).

That yellow boxes be repainted at the entrance and exit to St Finbarr’s Hospital on Douglas Road (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).

 

Old Cork City Hall, c.1920