Máire Devine: Calls to Reverse Regeneration Decision
Máire Devine challenges a recent decision affecting regeneration projects in Dublin and urges the Minister to reverse it. She warns the ruling risks a chilling effect on future regeneration and highlights the long delays and human cost borne by residents.
Key demand: reverse the decision
Máire Devine tells ministers and officials that the decision must be repaired and reversed to prevent a wider chilling effect on regeneration projects. She argues that thousands of plans and community efforts risk being stalled if the ruling stands.
Human and financial costs
Devine outlines the 20-25 year waits across Dublin for regeneration plans and asks officials to account for the full cost. She insists that cost calculations must include residents' financial, emotional and volunteer contributions and the heartbreak many have experienced through the process.
Local impact: Liberties, Dolphin House and dereliction
The senator paints a picture of central Dublin sites like the Liberties and Dolphin House being hollowed out by transient developments and long-term dereliction. She warns that indigenous communities have been displaced and that regeneration has been turned into a joke unless local authorities and the Minister act.
Questions for local authorities
Devine calls on Dublin City Council and other local bodies to show commitment and foresight, to use compulsory purchase and other tools where necessary, and to invest in communities surrounded by dereliction. She closes by urging those who walked out in anger to return and keep fighting for proper regeneration.
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I know you as well, you're probably sick of seeing me. I suppose a couple of things for me would be, would this decision, what chilling effect, does it have a chilling effect on other regeneration projects? I think the Minister needs to repair that and by doing that is reverse this decision because there's so much that we need to regenerate but all this chilling effect is going to affect everybody and the other thing is the cost of the 21 years waiting in all the different regions, in the Dublin area anyhow that I know of, the 20, 25 years waiting and planning it, the cost, and I'd love to know what the cost is but in that cost has got to be the cost of residents who've given their all to it, in monetary terms, in emotional terms, in the rollercoaster they've been on and in the heartbreak that comes frequently in all of that because it is your volunteerism most of the time that has invested in it and I don't think that's cost it because it seems to have been discarded too lightly. The two other things then in Dublin, in all of You just need to imagine it, the guys who don't live in the city, but it's this big complex in the middle of our old town, the Liberties, that we're rightly proud of and all around it is cranes and construction and things that are for transient accommodation, for student accommodation, hotels, apart hotels, it is considered one of the premier tourist sites in Dublin because the trail has got all that you need, the jail, the Trinity College, blah blah blah, but when you're told as a tourist to go there, gradually that community has been dissipated, it's been, the indigenous community if you want to call it, has been housed out of it and obviously Oliver Bond, people are going to say I'm off, I'm up sticks here, I'm not coming back because this regeneration is turned into a joke. Dolphin House is surrounded by significant and 50 years plus I would say dereliction, derelict sites, the ice rink used to be there, we had the Rialto cinema and it's all fallen apart and the CPOs, there's stuff there that DCC and local authorities can do, it's just a very, there's no commitment to anything, I don't know if there's any foresight or in depth kind of idea or maybe care, I'm not sure if care is the word for your job or whatever but DCC, but maybe an investment in communities that are surrounded by stuff that negates them themselves, so listen, well done, keep at it, please if you can, I understand if you want to stomp off but come back, okay, thank you. you
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