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

I have asked approximately 100 questions about Dún Laoghaire Harbour over the past four years and the fear that I and many people in Dún Laoghaire have about the creeping privatisation of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. This question relates to the decision of the harbour company to put up for sale 0.47 ha in an area called "the Gut", just off the west pier in recent weeks. Is this not proof of the creeping privatisation of Dún Laoghaire Harbour? Was the Minister made aware of the plan to sell this land, which in the Dún Laoghaire Harbour plan also was earmarked for residential development, which is strongly opposed by local people? Does the Minister think it appropriate that the company should put up for sale this land when the governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour is going to change - it has not yet been decided fully - and when a due diligence exercise is under way to establish what the hell is going on financially within the harbour company?

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