Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Cherrywood is the biggest residential the biggest residential development in the country. It is a new town with more than 8,000 apartments and houses. There are probably between 25,000 and 30,000 people living there. Many apartments and houses are being built and millions of euro of public money has gone into it but Hines, the wealth asset management company and main developer, has given clear indications to the council that it will not build the town centre. It will have made huge profits from the development, but it is indicating that it is not going to build the town centre. The whole point of Cherrywood was to have the services and infrastructure to serve the houses and to have a ten-minute town, but now it will not have a town centre because, it seems, this developer has us over a barrel.

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