“Use Dormant Accounts to Create Dodder Park”, Lacey
“Lacey calls for Dormant Accounts Fund to be used for creation of Dodder Linear Park.”
Former Lord Mayor of Dublin and Pembroke Councillor Dermot Lacey has called for a joint approach from the City Council and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to seek finance from the Dormant Accounts Fund to develop a new public park along the River Dodder.
“For years those of us seeking to protect the Dodder and develop a public amenity, have been told that there is no money available. Now there is. Thanks to the initiative of the late Jim Mitchell and Pat Rabbitte TD on the Public Accounts Committee, this new fund has been established and is rapidy growing. According to best estimates there is now approximately E400million to be distributed for community projects.”
“The new Dodder Park would have, at its core, the area known as Scully’s Field in Milltown and would continue down through Clonskeagh and Donnybrook. From Donnybrook Church down to Herbert Park it would incorporate the stretch along the Rugby Grounds that are to be transferred to the City Council under new development plans anyway.”
“This is a unique opportunity to create a real public amenity that is environmentally sustainable, that will provide play and recreational facilities to a heavily populated area, that will protect and enhance the River Dodder and will resolve once and for all the saga of Scully’s Field.”
The ball is now firmly in the Government’s court. If Fianna Fail and the PDs are serious about the environment and serious about protection and enhancement of the River Dodder as their local representatives claim, they will row in behind this proposal and endorse the allocation of the necessary finance to complete the job.”
For Further Information: Dermot Lacey, 087 -2646960
