Dublin City Council housing chair suggests ‘encouraging people away from the city’
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/dublin-city-council-housing-chair-suggests-encouraging-people-away-from-the-city/a461672979.html
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“I know people who moved away from the city and they have really good quality of life, experiences, peace, tranquillity and all of the rest of it, as well as, I suppose, a lack of huge demands on limited services,” she said.
Aye, the countryside. Famous for having any service you want with plenty of availability and no demand on them.
Idiot. Not fit for the job she has, advocating against her area of responsibility.
DCC’s hatred of high rise is forever holding Dublin back.
Yeah they should try split up civil servant families again like they tried with decentralisation. Never forget my GF’s dad was potentially going to be sent to Drogheda and her mam to Limerick when it was first proposed.
Fix the infrastructure of rural Ireland and people will stay or go to it
Sure thing, let’s all spend hours commuting on an already failing public transport system, or add to the problems with more cars.
High rise buildings.
For the love of fuck.
Build high rise buildings.
10 stories. 17 stories
Build them. Put people into them.
What the fuck are they afraid of!
Radical thought: renovate the hundreds of empty and crumbling buildings around Marlborough/Dorset/Talbot St and environs, create dwellings. CPO the buildings if necessary.
Moving people away from the city will just turn city centre into a place for tourists and not actually citizens. No more hotels, no more offices, get Dublin back to bring a living city, not a yank theme park
This lady is one of the biggest and most painful eejits in Dublin politics. She is also the biggest NIMBY going.
The entire rest of the world is urbanising and increasing density and Dublin City Council is encouraging people to move out of the city?
That’s it, I’m fucking emigrating, good luck.
She shouldn’t have her job, simple.
The lack of high rise in Ireland is now impacting the lives of the people who can’t afford to live near their jobs and instead have a 1-2 hour comment. Same on her and the rest of the councils for it
This is one Cllr’s view being pushed in the media due to her being the chair of DCC’s Housing Committee.
The executive team and their colleagues across DCC’s operations especially Housing, will be having the same reaction as the posters on here.
Deserves credit for putting herself forward for public office but from what I’ve seen of her over the years she’s as useless as a chocolate teapot.
Stop forcing people bank to the offices in the city and that could be a bit of a help
To spike island with all the poors pronto
Tone deaf
I wonder where she lives and how short her commute is.
Truly the emptiest vessel … I do despair
If only the government had a proper law to encourage remote working which could help reduce traffic, pressure on rents in Dublin and prevent small towns from dying
To hell or to clondalkin
They just refuse to consider the concept of high rise living in a European capital city
The already at capacity motorway into Dublin will love the additional vehicles. I’m also sure the companies in Dublin paying sky high rents will love being forced into a WFH arrangement
Where in Ireland isn’t there a housing crisis?
This is the opposite of what a city council chief should be doing.
They should wake up each day and want to make this the best city on the planet and obviously housing is a huge part of that.
I despair sometimes. I understand that rural resettlement is a thing and I know people who’ve availed of it, but it’s not a get out of jail clause for the city council and it can’t be foisted on people.
Well I work in the city so what are you suggesting?
Another smooth-brained craythur in DCC. Jesus wept.
Thats a complete disgrace.
Should resign. What on earth is even her role?
That’s happening for many years now, due to people being priced out of the city with most job opportunities. That’s why Mullingar, Tullamore, Wexford and the likes cost so much money to buy into housing.