FINE Gael mayoral candidate Cllr Daniel Butler announced a €72million investment programme as part of his plan for Limerick.
A councillor with 10 years’ experience and a former Mayor of Limerick, Cllr Butler has identified several government-backed funds that will allow him to significantly grow the €40million fund available to the country’s first directly-elected mayor.
These, he says, will see an additional €32million in funding for the people of Limerick over the next five years, with Cllr Butler committed to delivering a total investment of €72 million across the city and county.
Additional funding, he believes, can be secured through the Housing Adaptation Grant, the Town and Village Renewal Scheme, the Large Scale Sport Infrastructure Fund, the Rural Regeneration Development Fund, and the Urban Regeneration Development Fund.
This funding, Cllr Butler says, will be used to implement his five point plan for Limerick, the key pillars of which include enterprise, housing, infrastructure, quality of life, and rural development.
To deliver on these areas, he says, he will “use the funding already committed to the mayor to deliver €72million of investment for the people of Limerick, which is significantly more than any other candidate has committed.”
Cllr Butler went on to say that Green Party “ideology” has gotten in the way of delivering key infrastructure projects in recent years. He also thought it important to call out how Minister Eamon Ryan’s vetoes are costing Limerick today.
“An anti-roads ideology has stalled the delivery of the Limerick Northern Distributor Road, which has huge upsides for the economic and social development of Limerick. As mayor, Brian Leddin, and it appears John Moran too, would continue to block the development of this vital piece of infrastructure, which will stall Limerick’s economic development for another five years,” he claimed.
“The veto of the LNG Terminal in the Shannon Estuary is also hampering Limerick’s growth and is actually preventing Ireland from securing a lower carbon source of energy when compared to oil and coal.”
