Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 10 June 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of Dublin Docklands Development Authority (Dissolution) Bill 2014: Discussion

3:00 pm

Ms Dolores Wilson:

There are real concerns that the economic and fiscal planning of the SDZs, as Ms Ashe said, will overpower the wider docklands area. That is a major worry for us because economic growth will happen but we are fearful that the social infrastructure and social needs will be lost. As Ms Ashe noted with regard to St. Andrew's Resource Centre, we have lost so much in funding over the past couple of years and now we are expected to supply more services because of the downturn. There is no way we will be funded through anything we have seen in the heads of the Bill. There is nothing that has jumped out at any of us and told us we will be happy with what is happening there.