DARRAGH O'BRIEN TD
  • HOME
  • About Darragh
  • News
  • Parliamentary Questions
    • Housing, Planning & Local Government PQ's
    • School PQs
    • Foreign Affairs PQS
    • Oral Questions
  • Newsletters
  • Videos
  • PHOTOS
  • FIANNA FAIL
  • CONTACT
  • DATA Protection Statement

News

Fingal’s rural villages must be a priority – O’Brien

29/1/2016

 
Fianna Fáil’s Dublin spokesperson and Dublin Fingal candidate Senator Darragh O’Brien is calling for the establishment of a Fingal Villages Forum to protect and enhance the unique aspect of rural villages in the area. The Forum should be made up of residents and other relevant stakeholders, he said.

“It is crucially important that our rural villages and communities are supported so they do not fall into decline and can continue to play a vibrant role in North Dublin. There is no point in bandying about phrases such as Social Inclusion, High Quality Design, Settlement Strategy, Necessary Infrastructure and Developing a Sense of Place, Identity and Character, if we don’t apply them to all our rural villages and communities, and then ensure that those principles are actually enshrined in the heart of those communities.”

Senator O’Brien went on to call for an integrated rural transport system: “Transport links from our rural villages of Ballyboughal, St Margaret’s, Rivermeade, Garristown, Naul, Oldtown, Kilsallaghan, Balscadden, Balrothery and Rolestown need to be vastly improved.

“There has to be an integrated approach between land use and transport services, such as roads, paths, cycle ways and public transport, rather than just talk about it.
I am totally committed to expanding our rural transport network to ensure better and much needed connectivity from these areas to our major towns, to the airport and on to Dublin city-centre.

“I believe that Fingal county council’s rural housing policy is too restrictive and makes it far too difficult for young people from our rural communities to set up home and raise a family in the areas from which they come. Housing policy must reflect people’s commitment to live in Fingal, and they must be supported in that. I cannot for the life of me understand where this notion that local people must be obstructed from living locally came from. It is wrong.

“Of course local housing must be on an agreed, appropriate scale and character to respect, enhance and integrate with that of the community, but the spirit of the planning process should be one of accommodating and working positively with local applicants, instead of hindering and refusing them. A forum could investigate and copperfasten a proper rural villages policy,” concluded Senator O’Brien.

Comments are closed.
    Picture

    NEWS

    Archives

    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    October 2015

Darragh O'Brien TD


Address

Darragh O'Brien TD
Leinster House
Kildare Street
Dublin 2

Telephone

T:  01-6183802

Email

At present, and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, I am not holding my regular meetings across our towns and villages in North County Dublin. However, both I and my office are happy to speak to you and assist you with any issues you may have.

For all housing, planning or heritage related queries please don’t hesitate to contact:
Email: minister@housing.gov.ie
Phone: 01-8882000
Postal address: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Custom House, Dublin 1, D01 W6X0
 
For all constituency related queries please don’t hesitate to contact:
Email: Darragh.obrien@oireachtas.ie
Phone: 01-6183802
Postal address: Dáil Éireann, Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin 2.
 



  • HOME
  • About Darragh
  • News
  • Parliamentary Questions
    • Housing, Planning & Local Government PQ's
    • School PQs
    • Foreign Affairs PQS
    • Oral Questions
  • Newsletters
  • Videos
  • PHOTOS
  • FIANNA FAIL
  • CONTACT
  • DATA Protection Statement