What would become of the Civic Offices on Wood Quay if the council relocates?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
A report from Codema combined a map showing home energy ratings with one showing levels of deprivation, to identify 17 energy-poor areas in the city.
The council would transfer the site to the OPW, which would build a memorial to commemorate all those who were confined to institutions.
“It’s kind of unsettling,” said Fine Gael Councillor Naoise Ó Muirí. “What is going to happen?”
In February, a homeless woman emailed councillors with complaints about professional boundaries at an inner-city listening service.
People often head for Stephen’s Green to learn about Dublin’s great writers, artists and thinkers, but they miss out if they skip Dorset Street, says historian John Seery.
April Mooney says the subsidy the council’s offering her on her own isn’t enough to stay, or to get another place, so the council advised her to go into homeless accommodation.
The Dublin Region Homeless Executive says that under an agreed protocol only disused or derelict tents are removed, while those who are homeless say different.
Adding rainwater harvesting to more city apartment complexes could help ease the pressure on the overloaded sewer system, reducing overflows into Dublin Bay.
In 2019, Dublin City Council quietly dropped 38 and 39 Bolton Street from its reports on plans for social housing.
These were among the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at recent meetings.
“If they are looking at Croí Cónaithe for private developers of student accommodation they are mad,” said Sinn Féin TD Eoin Ó Broin.
Local councillors are proposing to rezone it for recreational use instead, so that the playing fields there can be opened back up and retained.