In two cases, inspectors found that staff were using restraint to try to manage children’s behaviour, and one of those children was restrained 78 times.
The services are now more expensive, and the companies managing them are less flexible and harder to contact than the embassies were, would-be travellers say.
From managing and maintaining the city’s housing, to keeping the traffic flowing smoothly, to fixing the roads, all sorts of services are suffering councillors say.
As years have passed and the council has not rolled out its proposed 350 bike bunkers, people have been finding their own solutions – but planning is a barrier.
Councillors have the responsibility to set the rate each year, so they should also get to decide how to spend the resulting income, finance committee chair says.
The OPW, which manages the park near Stephen’s Green, says ticketed events will take up less space, for fewer days there this year. Residents say they plan to keep pushing for more changes.
Belvedere FC and East Wall Bessborough FC say they can raise €4 million to build it at Alfie Byrne Park if the council will give them a lease on the land.
