Council launches public consultation on how to develop George’s Dock
Whatever is decided, Dublin City Council doesn’t plan to cover the costs. Instead, it wants a private operator to come in and deliver a facility or activity.
The county’s joint policing committee was stood down last June, but the new local community safety partnerships aren’t up and running yet to replace it.
“It’s important that we have a structure where people are held to account, can voice concerns and have questions answered.”
Pockets of the park have become meeting points for drug users and dealers, says junior parkrun organiser Stephen Keeler.
Forced criminality has been happening in the north inner-city for years but, lately, it is happening more openly, says Belinda Nugent, of ICON.
Schemes to post wardens around O’Connell Street and Wolfe Tone Square are part of a pilot aimed at improving feelings of safety in the north inner-city.
The guards are deeply involved in inquests, even when garda conduct is at issue in the death being investigated.
Respondents mostly felt that the partnership provided a forum for inter-agency collaboration but that it needed more resources and better staffing to work.
An Garda Síochána’s Dublin Metropolitan Region “emphasizes their commitment to arresting individuals using scramblers illegally”, a spokesperson says.
They’re being set up with the aim of getting more people and agencies working together to make neighbourhoods safer.
These were two of the issues discussed at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.
Former council planner Kieran Rose says the council has lost the plot. “It’s crazy,” he says. “If we do this we are giving up on the city.”
“Temperatures seem to be heating up by the week,” said Social Democrats Councillor Tara Deacy at Monday’s meeting of the Dublin City Joint Policing Committee.