Question to the City Manager:

To ask the Manager for the number of engineers (and where) employed in middle to senior management positions, between the various directorates in the Council? (Cllr Kieran McCarthy)

Motions:

That a full and proper traffic management plan be pursued and implemented in Ballinlough, Ballintemple and Mahon with regard to the traffic activity around GAA matches in Pairc Uí Rinn and Pairc Uí Chaoimh. Local residents in the area are frustrated by the lack of a proper traffic plan. Most weekends residents witness supporters’ cars parking illegally, and parking on public realm spaces, footpaths, blocking driveways, greenways etc. It is time now to implement a proper plan whereby resident parking only will be provided in the latter areas and that proper park and ride facilities be developed in association with the GAA (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).

That this Council implore the government to support the work of the COPE Foundation, which caters for 2,150 adults and children with intellectual disabilities. The group, with the national budget 2013 approaching, have strongly noted they cannot guarantee its current levels of service and supports if hit with further budget cuts (Cllr Kieran McCarthy).