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Limerick report: sound familiar?

  • 04-06-2008 9:52am
    #1
    fricatus
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    http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0604/limerick.html

    Sounds like Limerick and Waterford share a lot of similar issues - a ton of plans that have yet to get going, an overdependence on manufacturing and the lack of a single local authority to cover all the urban area (although our little bit of F-bank in Co KK is trivial compared to the big chunks of Limerick city in the two adjacent county areas). At least they have the university though...

    Maybe some lobbying of government by both cities is what is needed? Certainly we have issues with local objectors, but the fact that ABP take 6 months to decide an appeal is something that government could tackle. Similarly, this stupid situation with multiple local authorities running different parts of a single city is something they could address too - and I sense that the Minster for the Environment is well disposed to the cities' point of view on this front.


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  • #2
    mike65
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    In the immortal words of Charlton Heston "damn you, damn you to hell" :p

    I had a thread for this exact topic in mind (just as well I checked the forum first), you can swap Limerick for Waterford in most of that report - we have conflicted local authorities, several large scale developments in the offing (but not government backed like the renewal of public housing estates in Limerick), important transport infrastructure improvments under way, and yes too much reliance on Old School industry.

    If you add the potential investment value of the proposed Bilbury, north quay and city centre developments together you're talking around a billion euro and a few thousand jobs (combined construction and staffing when complete).

    And not a single euro is actually being spent as of now and nor is there any guarentee a single euro will be spent.

    Mike.


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