As much as the number of housing is important, the type of housing we build is as important.

One of the reasons I left the Green Party is because my then Green colleagues voted to down a motion to take the O'Devaney public land back into public ownership. I voted in favour of the motion. I am fighting with the community to keep all the land on the old St Michael's site into public ownership.

We need to keep our public land to build public housing because we need to get affordable and cost rental housing solutions and we need to borrow on longer terms from financial institutions. At every opportunity I get I push for more, 3, 4 and 5 bed housing units to be built because we are by a large majority building studios, 1 bed and 2 bed units.

I object to private student accommodations. I will keep demanding more public housing based on the Vienna Model that would cater for a wide range of household type without social segregation. Our neoliberal governments have turned Ireland into a private funds investors' heaven, this needs to stop to build affordable homes again.

The key to many issues we have today [regarding] public housing maintenance, waste collection etc is that we are not investing in our public services and we are privatising our public services.

Dublin City Council needs to be in a position to hire, train, and keep staff to respond to the demands of DCC tenants, especially tenants living in our old housing complexes.

We need to create and massively invest in a national public body to run retrofitting on the largest scale for all public and private buildings with full insulation to improve living conditions and energy efficiency. Only with social justice, will we significantly tackle climate breakdown.

I am a member of the Community Action Tenant Union (CATU). CATU and I with my councillor hat on as well, have been consistently pushing DCC for the last 18 months to get insulation for the tenants of Davitt House, public housing in Drimnagh, and better maintenance and care for the individual apartments and the entire complex. Attic insulation is being done, maintenance has improved and a plan for door and window replacement is in place. We are still demanding a full wrap around the building to stop the cold and mould in the apartments. 

Only a few months after my elections on the council in 2019, I was a founding member of the ‘remunicipalisation of waste’ working group within the council. After I left the Green Party I joined Right To Change, the party created by TD Joan Collins who was elected having championed the anti-bin tax campaign. In the past year, we have organised a public meeting on taking the bins back to the local authorities, we set up stalls on a regular basis in our local communities to inform and promote the campaign.

Ireland out of European countries has a high rate of illegal dumping. Countries that have returned to public waste collection or have kept it as a public service don't have that problem. When we return bin collection to public ownership we won't have that environmental problem of having dirty streets with illegal dumping hot spots. Again taking waste back into public ownership will tackle pollution.

We need to use the tools we already have and enforce them on landlords. More buildings and land need to come back into public ownership to provide public and affordable housing so DCC with the help of government funding needs to be able to use CPOs to buy derelict sites and buildings. We need to stop seeing housing as investments but as a necessity need to provide housing for all.

I am a committee member of the D12 Community Safety Forum and was chair for two years. I am part of the D12 Local Drug and Alcohol Task Force. I work very closely with the Crumlin and Sundrive Garda stations.

The wider issue with safety is the drug trade. More and more people see the drug trade as the only way to subsist and provide an income to support family members. We need to tackle poverty and the cost of living in order to make the drug trade not attractive. We need to raise the minimum wage, and invest in social workers in our communities, mental and physical health, and women's services.

I am part of the Connect Communities Action Group which has lobbied to keep the 13, 68, and 69 buses to stop the NTA plan to remove them and replace them with one bus per hour that is not going through Thomas Street and St James Hospital. 

Busconnects were drawn up by a North American transport specialist. Dublin is a medieval city, an old city, so we need to copy and follow the lead of our counterparts on the continent, such as the City of Nantes located south of Brittany, one of our closest European neighbours.

We know it works there, we know how they do it, we just need the political will to massively invest in more buses. [We need] less CO2 emission propelled buses, to invest in smaller buses to service local areas like it was before in Bluebell, for example. We need more routes and more frequent buses, not less.

We need to make public transport free to offer a true alternative for drivers who get stuck in traffic congestion on a daily basis. We need to think of a public transport designed for European cities to help tackle climate breakdown. 

People who use public transport make their way on foot or wheelchairs to their local bus stop and do the same in the city centre to go to their local library etc. So public transport is key in parallel with footpaths that are accessible to use by all, lower speed limit for cars and more pedestrian crossing. 

Far-right and [the] role [that] social media, run by private companies, plays need to be reviewed. But most importantly, if we didn't have a housing crisis that has been generated [by] not building public and affordable housing we would not have the far-right knocking on our door. More social dialogue needs to take place. 

We need to have our state institutions working for people, for housing, and [for] mental and physical health as a matter of urgency. Hate comes from desperation and fear. Freedom and human rights are a constant battle, we all need to stay vigilant to protect the rights acquired in the past thanks to activists who fought for us [to] have [and] enjoy them. We need to stay involved in our communities [and] to interact with one another as well.

We all need to keep in mind [that] asylum seekers would rather stay working and cultivating their plots of land in their homeland. We here in Ireland need to wake up and stop our neoliberal capitalist government [from] raising our cost of living, taking away our housing needs, creating climate breakdown here and in all countries where migrants originate from. 

We need the political will to stop extracting natural resources here in Ireland and everywhere else for us all not to fight for the crumbs [that] the 1% of the rich leave us. We can't let our working class fight with another working class just because it is from somewhere else. All united in fighting the rich because we can't afford them. That's the only way we will tackle the far-right, the far-right who never had, who doesn't and never will have the working class' best interest in mind.