Press Release: Dún Laoghaire 14 June 2006  

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Recommendations for more modest development of Dún Laoghaire Baths welcomed by Green Party

Recommendations by a sub-committee of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will see the Dún Laoghaire Baths site developed more modestly and sensitively than was proposed in a plan rejected by County Councillors last October.

The new recommendations propose the re-development of the old Baths, the retention of the Portico and the development of the coast around the site for amenity activities. 

Dún Laoghaire Green Party TD, Ciarán Cuffe said, “I am delighted that the sub-committee’s recommendations have taken into account the views of those people who took to streets to ensure that this site was developed as public amenity. I hope that the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown will now produce sufficient funds to ensure that these new proposals will become a reality. A modest public amenity on the Baths site would be a real victory for local democracy”.

 “It is great to see that the Council has taken on board the views expressed by all those who opposed the privatised, ten-storey development that had been planned for the site. It is crucial that important sites in public ownership are developed in such a way that all the community benefits”. 

Dún Laoghaire Green Party Councillor Kealin Ireland said, ‘I am very happy the Committee’s proposals for the Baths site. It is everything that the public and the Green Party have been calling for years. It’s certainly a far cry from the ten storey private development which was proposed only a year ago and which was welcomed with open arms by so many politicians. How much has changed since then!’ 

‘The Green Party has continually stressed the importance of public involvement in this process; the crucial public consultation process must be embarked on without any further delay. 

“This is a vindication of all the street protests, the demonstrations, the voices of opposition raised by thousands of people of the last few years. All that is required on this site is a modest and public amenity. It seems, finally, that we are headed in that direction”, concluded Cllr. Ireland