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Cllr Kieran Binchy is committed to addressing your concerns at a neighbourhood, local or city-wide level. If you have a problem that needs fixing, a query you want answered or an issue you want raised, please contact Cllr Binchy (details on home page). These are some of the issues the Pembroke South Dock candidate has tackled in recent weeks:

Councillor Kieran Binchy has welcomed the announcement that the Office of Public Works will share flood defence data with Insurance Ireland. The OPW will provide Insurance Ireland with data on all completed OPW flood defence schemes; insurers will take this information into account when assessing exposure to flood risk within these areas, from 1 June 2014.

Cllr Kieran Binchy invites you to have your say at the public meeting he is hosting at 8pm on Tuesday, April 15 at the Hampton Hotel in Donnybrook. The guest speakers will be former Taoiseach John Bruton, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and Cllr Binchy.  

€105,000 for Dublin City Council   Cllr Kieran Binchy has welcomed the announcement of €105,000 in funding to Dublin City Council to support community groups to enhance their areas. The funding comes as part of a €3 million Public Area Enhancement Scheme announced by Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD.

Cllr Kieran Binchy has welcomed the ‘Love the Lanes’ Project, which aims to revitalise the back lanes of Temple Bar. The project is a joint initiative between Temple Bar Company and Dublin City Council to rethink how we use the back lanes of Temple Bar. The goal is to reclaim the lanes of Temple Bar for people to use and […]

Cllr. Kieran Binchy has welcomed the plans to construct a flood protection scheme along the southern campshires of the River Liffey in 2014, and will work with local residents along City Quay and Sir John Rogerson’s Quay to ensure that the works meet the needs of the local community. The flood protection will extend from Butt Bridge to a point […]

Cllr. Kieran Binchy has welcomed the news that Dublin City Council has finally passed bye-laws controlling the days on which waste collection companies can collect the bins from households of the city. This is aimed at putting an end to the free-for-all regime under which each bin collector was collecting on different days from the same street, so that you […]

The following is the text of the letter submitted by Councilor Kieran Binchy to Waterways Ireland as part of that organisation’s consultation with the public about its proposed new bye-laws. More information available here. A copy of the letter has also been sent to Minister Jimmy Deenihan. Dear Sir/Madam, As the Fine Gael Councillor for the area that includes the […]

Minister Eamonn Gilmore recently announced that Labour will cut the property tax by 15%.  In so doing he spectacularly misses the point. The power to vary property tax rates will be a local power, to be exercised by Councillors carrying out their statutory duty to bring in an annual balanced budget for their City or County. Eamonn Gilmore is a Minister. […]

A series of very high tides is due to occur starting this Friday- January 31st, continuing over the weekend until Monday, February 3rd. Early indications are that the tides due at 11.30 am on Friday and at 12.18pm on Saturday will be particularly high. An accurate forecast of the high tide level for Friday should be available tomorrow morning.   […]