I warmly welcome the restoration of the Housing Grants for pensioners which had been suspended by Dublin City Council for almost a year now. Fresh applications are being accepted from Monday 5th July. The City Council have now cleared the backlog of applications on the old grant. A budget of over €14m has been set aside [...]
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I welcome An Bord Pleanala’s decision to reject Dublin Port’s proposal to infill 52 acres of the bay. However, it is disappointing that the Board did not accept its own inspector’s view that the infill of 52 acres is in conflict with Government port policy, with the balanced development of the city, and with the need [...]
Soaring SpiritsI am very privileged to have seen my two favourite music acts perform in Dublin within a fortnight. In age, they are separated by nearly half a century. One is an icon for a whole generation. The other is just tapping on the door of wider recognition. Continue Reading
‘Marry in haste and repent at leisure’. This is the risk of the Government’s courtship with the banks through NAMA. Panic today, and misplaced optimism that tomorrow will look after itself, should not guide this massive step. Continue Reading
The McCarthy Report once again underlines the appalling failure of the government to live within its means and to deliver public services efficiently. It exposes the lazy habits of creating an agency for every problem, of paying out benchmarking without reform, of buying out problems instead of confronting them. The government has created a spending machine that requires €400m a week of borrowed money to keep it afloat. Continue Reading
