Midwest will suffer if Limerick city 'is not fixed'

zing zong

A REVITALISED Limerick city is crucial to safeguard the future of the midwest region which is in rapid decline, the chairman of the Limerick local government committee has warned.

Mr Denis Brosnan made his comments as a report recommending a single governing authority for the Limerick region and parts of Clare was published.

Mr Brosnan said at the launch of the report that Limerick city centre was “dead”, and he warned that every part of the midwest region would suffer if “Limerick is not fixed”.

He also said the work of the Government-established Mid West Jobs Task Force and other job-creation agencies would be redundant.

“I can assure you of one thing,” Mr Brosnan said, “ if you don’t sort out Limerick city and if you don’t sort out the greater midwest region, there won’t be jobs here for the next 10 years.

“Every part of this region will suffer until we revitalise the old Limerick city centre . . . you all know it is dead,” he added.

The Limerick Local Government Committee, was established in February to advise the Government on the most appropriate local government arrangements for Limerick.

Two local authorities govern Limerick city and county while Clare County Council governs areas on the north of the river Shannon on the outskirts of the city. A joint authority is the preferred option of Limerick County Council while Limerick City Council favours an extension to the city boundary.

Clare County Council is reluctant to allow Limerick to govern any part of southeast Clare.

The report published yesterday recommends the establishment of a new unified Limerick local authority to service a population of 187,000. Areas including Castletroy, Raheen, Ballycummin, Dooradoyle, Ballysheedy, Rathuard and Castlemungret in Co Limerick would be part of the enlarged city.

The report also recommends that Shannon Banks, Westbury and the north campus of University of Limerick from Co Clare to the newly extended city be governed by the new authority.

It concludes that €20 million could be saved from efficiencies gained through the merging of structures.




http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0903/1224278127749.html

munstergirl

Limerick is already suffering, don't know why it will take 2 years to get this into action. They are only invisible borders.

Heard the mayor on live95 say she did not think it was a good idea, she thinks we should have 1 authority with 2 councils, think they are afraid of losing their jobs.

Cathal crowe also says clare people do not want to be limerick people. But i think we are all irish at the end of the day.

The suburbs of limerick should be in the city to bring up back to the 3rd largest city.

Maybe some jobs will come out of it

Amazotheamazing

Everyone should read the report, it's very clear and sets out clearly the issues Limerick faces.

kilburn

Very good report and clear.

Anything that annoys Mr Crowe is fine by me !

molard

anyone taking bets that crowe will be bulling for the clare representative job on the new city board. my own view is should go to whoever got the highest vote in the area in the local election.

kilburn

course he will want it, but do we want him, i imagine the overwhelming answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kess73

molard wrote: »

anyone taking bets that crowe will be bulling for the clare representative job on the new city board. my own view is should go to whoever got the highest vote in the area in the local election.

Personally I would prefer it to go to the person best qualified for the role, but then again Irish politics and council politics do not work that way.

flutered

look folks, limerick is never going to be fixed, who do folk expect to fix it, the most important thing is who allowed it to get to the state it is in now, we have a minister for overseas development in the city, we have our wille who has to tumb a lift to dublin to repesent us, (sorry dff)
one of them should be able to say i am repesenting limerick, i am going to be a development officer for our city,
instead they are our dff (dispicable feckn failures) repesentives, unless this is changed we may as well bring in the ball wreckers and level it as it will become known as ghost town.

liammur

Cork has got as many IDA jobs in 2010 as Limerick has since 1997.
50 IDA jobs since Dell's layoffs, what a disgrace.

flutered

it comes back to my view that we need our own candidate in the next election, lets put one in dail eireann

padma

liammur wrote: »

Cork has got as many IDA jobs in 2010 as Limerick has since 1997.
50 IDA jobs since Dell's layoffs, what a disgrace.

We could always set up the Limerick socialist again, and declare for an Independent Limerick, stop paying our gas and electricity bills and file no tax returns to Dublin for the self employed. All revenue to be spent back in to Limerick. Get a massive injection of cash in to the region from the Arabs. re-establish Shannon, get rid of airport tax and the list goes on, but we should wait until the new motorway to dublin is sorted, as it's the only thing we've got out of them for years.

liammur

flutered wrote: »

it comes back to my view that we need our own candidate in the next election, lets put one in dail eireann

I would say an Independent would have every chance of success. There is definitely a void for the coming election that needs to be filled.

source

liammur wrote: »

I would say an Independent would have every chance of success. There is definitely a void for the coming election that needs to be filled.

Independent candidates are great for representation, but get very little done without the backing of a big political party. for example, an independent will not be able to stop a bill that might affect his/her constituents from becoming legislation but a big party can block vote against it and stop it. Also an independent will never get a ministry so will never be able to organise any real change.

An independent will go from big fish in a small pond, to small fish in big pond, if elected TD.

liammur

foinse wrote: »

Independent candidates are great for representation, but get very little done without the backing of a big political party. for example, an independent will not be able to stop a bill that might affect his/her constituents from becoming legislation but a big party can block vote against it and stop it. Also an independent will never get a ministry so will never be able to organise any real change.

An independent will go from big fish in a small pond, to small fish in big pond, if elected TD.

Correct, but look at willie o dea. Couldn't get IDA jobs into the city or county in 13 years, couldn't do anything re aer lingus pulling out of shannon, I ask, what did he do? An independent could NOT have been more ineffective.

molard

what is the point of a new limerick city when the same people who got us into this mess will be still running it.party politics etc

flutered

molard wrote: »

what is the point of a new limerick city when the same people who got us into this mess will be still running it.party politics etc

can we not try and do something about it, at least make the established partys sit up and take notice

liammur

flutered wrote: »

can we not try and do something about it, at least make the established partys sit up and take notice

Correct, that's 1 of the reasons why Limerick is failing, people are just happy to vote in the likes of dea time after time, thereby giving o dea a 'free ride'.

zuroph

I'll do it, but you have to make my posters.

liammur

zuroph wrote: »

I'll do it, but you have to make my posters.

What exactly will you do ?

zuroph

liammur wrote: »

What exactly will you do ?

apologies, wrong thread. I rectract the statement.