Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
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Live in Fingal and wish you could push your kids out to play on the street?
The council says it wants to hear from you.
Lack of speed-limit data from Dublin City Council hampering “lifesaving” technology in cars
The council is now over 18 months late in meeting a legal deadline to publish a digital map of speed limits on city streets.
Few have used process set up to allow appeals to speed limits, figures show
Since 2022, there have been 332 appeals lodged with councils nationwide, according to a Department of Transport spokesperson.
In Dublin 15, councillors say they’re inundated with complaints about slippery leaves on footpaths
“It's no exaggeration. I've had at least 20 different people coming to me with this issue,” Councillor Angela Donnelly said.
After government abandons plan to make city speed limit 30km/h by default, council returns to slog of doing it bit by bit
At a meeting of Dublin City Council’s transport committee on Wednesday, councillors and council managers expressed frustration with the long road ahead.
In Chapelizod, parents don high-vis and wait, hopefully, for council to approve a school warden
Requests for a school warden were previously turned down because it was considered too dangerous, said a councillor. In recent times, two other schools have been told the same.
New traffic light on Collins Avenue creates more danger than it prevents, councillors say
It’s meant to control traffic leaving the Whitehall Colmcille GAA clubhouse car park, across a footpath, onto the road.
Default speed limits in urban areas were set to be reduced to 30km/h nationally – but that’s now changed
“It was subsequently recognised that this would be difficult to achieve … ,” says a Department of Transport spokesperson.
In Clongriffin, a private developer removed much-needed speed bumps – and nobody will put them back
“Private interests are still in control of vast tracts of what should be publicly controlled land, publicly run in the interest of the people.”
Council refuses plea for school warden, saying they aren’t allowed to stand on private footpath
The pavement outside Stapolin Educate Together hasn’t yet been taken in charge by Fingal County Council.
Road Safety Authority Rebuffs Invite from Chair of Council’s Transport Committee
Councillors had wanted to talk, among other things, about progress on sharing key data that they say the council needs to make roads safer.
Council Wants Better Data on Road Traffic Collisions to Improve Safety of City Streets, but RSA Won’t Share
The Road Safety Authority cites GDPR as its reason, but deputy commissioner for the Data Protection Commission says that directive shouldn’t prevent the publication of this data.