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Dublin Chamber of Commerce plan

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  • 22-03-2010 11:12am
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    gurramok
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    This caught my eye in the article: http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0322/dublin.html
    The Chamber's submission also calls for redevelopment of derelict sites and the removal of needle exchanges, head shops and homeless shelters in the central business district.

    Overdue?

    Where would they move these places to? a designated suburb?:confused:


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    problemchimp
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    I agree with the building plan for the city and possibly the removal of head shops but do the chamber want to pretend there is no drug addicts or homeless people? Seeing junkies or homeless is not something we want to see on our streets but it is something we have to deal with. hiding them away in the suburbs is not tackling the problem. I'm afraid we have celtic tiger babies running the Dublin chamber. If they "really" cared about Dublin they would come up with some ideas instead of their victorian plans to a modern problem. Some people just don't understand we need a compassionate society to move forward not just a greedy one. Good thread by the way.


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    How Strange
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    So where would the drug users and the homeless people go? Do they endorse the creation of more suburban ghettos? We've already seen the fantastic results of urban planning like that.

    What about drug users in city centre areas? Where do they go to get clean needles?

    What about homeless people in the centre? Do they just become invisible?

    Shameful.


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    gurramok
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    How do they deal with it in other countries? Keep the services in the city centre areas or move them away out of sight?


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