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.
Neither Tusla nor the Dublin Region Homeless Executive have accessible data around how many, but some say they should. “We can only address a problem properly when we understand the scale of it.”
At meetings earlier this week, Dublin city councillors also approved a local area plan for Cherry Orchard, and discussed about how to tackle illegal parking on Montpelier Hill.
Facilities “are not employing qualified, trained case workers to deal with the complex issues”, says Anthony Flynn, CEO of Inner City Helping Homeless.
The new venue is bigger than the Tivoli Theatre was, so District 8 can now attract bigger crowds and bigger acts. But they still wouldn’t have chosen to leave the city centre, says Dave Parle.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council says it no longer plans to sell off the land – but the site is still excluded from a draft Traveller accommodation strategy.
Feelings of immense relief when Gail Kelly and Brian Bolger got access to a “respite” room were replaced by feelings of total hopelessness when they had to leave it.
Many homeless people struggle to navigate the baffling bureaucracy that stands between them and adequate shelter. Sometimes, because bureaucrats say they aren’t homeless.
Nial Ring has far outpaced earlier lord mayors. He’s simply more sociable than others, he says. “The Mansion House is belonging to the people of Dublin.”
The share of hosts renting out entire homes in the city for more than 90 days a year has been growing, and Airbnb offers tools to support professional operators.
Plans to build Traveller accommodation on land on Mount Anville Road date back more than 30 years, but no construction has ever started. A recent valuation has muddied the waters even more.
