Kieran’s Question to CE and Motions, Cork City Council meeting, 13 February 2023

Question to the CE: 

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

How many homelessness cases on the streets in the last weekend of January 2023? 

Are their beds available for all homelessness at this point in time in the city (early February 2023)? 

How many emergency accommodation units? 

To ask for the breakdown of finance given to housing homeless agencies in the city in 2022 and proposed expenditure to agencies in 2023? (Cllr Kieran McCarthy). 

Motions:   

That a root and branch assessment be made on the pedestrian safety around the new Douglas-Rochestown Educate Together School on the old Carrigaline Road and appropriate safety measures be acted upon (Cllr Kieran McCarthy). 

 That the name John Swiney, one of the core leaders in Cork of the United Irishmen in 1798, be inscribed on the 1798 panel on the National Monument on the Grand Parade (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).  

To get a report on the status of the playground space at the Old Cork Waterworks Experience being returned to Cork City Council from Irish Water (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).  To add Lisnalee Drive, Ballintemple, to the re-surfacing estates list of the south east local electoral area (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).