A COMPELLING debate on housing delivery amongst councillors filled Limerick’s directly-elected mayor with confidence.
Mayor John Moran listened with great interest to what councillors had to say in the Dooradoyle chambers at the April full monthly meeting of Limerick City and Council Council, as they called for change in how housing is delivered to speed up the process across Limerick.
“I’m extremely heartened about this conversation,” Mayor Moran said. “I think we have finally got a consensus around a number of things in this chamber.”
“One is that we need to add a new approach to housing, and second, that the existing structure isn’t working and the bureaucracy isn’t serving anyone.”
To try and continue this cooperation between Limerick’s first citizen and Council members, Mayor Moran called for everyone in the chamber to use their voice to echo this problem.
“We need a reset on housing in Limerick and I will welcome any support that I can get from this chamber to continue to push on the stuff that we actually asked the government for last week,” he told members, referencing his meeting with Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Housing Minister James Browne.
Mayor Moran reminded councillors that the scale of the housing problem is huge and said that significant amounts of money will be needed to unlock large amounts of land.
“I would ask everybody, you’re all in different parties, just keep echoing that up in the Dáil so Limerick is not forgotten,” he concluded.
