Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
But the scheme is a success, said a council official's report, as that shows the cameras are a deterrent.
Some residents of Castle Court still aren’t back in their homes. “It’s awful to think … overnight this can just happen,” says local resident Helen Rooney.
Some of the meetings to discuss the city’s housing delivery and services have moved to closed-door workshops too.
Dublin city councillors at a budget meeting talked about funding to do up vacant social homes, and also for street cleaning.
Some landlords and tenants who won tribunal cases were recorded as having lost, the report found.
“I am dealing with serious cases, people screaming and crying for houses,” says People Before Profit Councillor Hazel de Nortúin.
These were some of the issues that members discussed at Tuesday’s meeting of Dublin City Council’s Central Area Committee.
“I laughed when I heard people say that they should put armed guards on the streets,” says Eddie Mullins. “What are they going to do? Shoot people?”
“We need to know where we can find this funding to make people’s living conditions decent – because it is our human rights,” says Gayle Cullen, chair of the Oliver Bond Residents Group.
These were among the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at the November monthly meeting on Monday.
“With the housing crisis as it is – it seems insane that the council allows this,” says local resident Stuart Smith.
“I think it’s a good idea,” says Darach Ó Séaghdha, an Irish language activist, podcaster and author. “It will stop the bad translations happening.”
These are some of what councillors for the northside of the city have discussed at recent meetings.