Start of construction at Guinness Quarter is near, says developer – as it seeks tweaks to planning permission
Proposed changes include dropping three-bedroom homes, in favour of more smaller ones in the block of future social housing.
The current restrictions do need to change, said a spokesperson for the Department of Finance.
“We have waited too long; we desperately need the department to fund this,” says Shay L’Estrange, coordinator with Ballyfermot Traveller Action Project.
Andrii Stepanov says some people don’t want to return to what was once their home, and is now Russian territory. “Why are they pushing us to Russia?”
They were damaged during routine maintenance in May 2023, a council spokesperson said on Thursday.
A masterplan for the area foresees up to 8,500 homes being built on the lands, as well as schools and sports and community facilities, and more.
When a councillor tried to raise the project at the monthly meeting Monday, he was given 10 seconds.
The HSE has already put in a planning application to build a primary care centre on the site.
Nicknamed “liquid handcuffs”, methadone can require daily doses at a pharmacy or clinic, making education, employment, or even a holiday hard to grasp.
Is the issue paperwork? Attention and will? Money? The department?
The numbers spiked after a new cohort of councillors was elected in June 2024, and have eased somewhat since then – while remaining higher than before.
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.
They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.