LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Government Policy Beggaring Dublin

Tuesday the 4th of August 2009

Central Government policy on the Local Government Fund (LGF) is skimping on Dubliners with a spend of €193 per head of population, as opposed to the national average of €217 – and this is despite the fact that state departments continue to refuse to pay the commercial rates that the Dublin City Council  is entitled to and city ratepayers expect. Over the last ten years the ratepayers of Dublin City Centre had to pick up the costs of running the City by around €230 million due to the freeloading attitudes of Central Government Departments.

Other Councils within the Greater Dublin Area are also being left without, although at least they aren’t having to carry free-loading government departments: Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, €198; Fingal, €131; while South Dublin Council gets a derisory €103 per resident.

This agenda by Central Government of beggaring Dublin City and its hinterland must be stopped in the interest of proper, good and competent Government.