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EACH AND EVERY week, we put together a round-up of the week’s biggest property news stories around Ireland.
Stay on the real estate pulse with our five-minute digest, featuring the vital news from the week just gone.
This week, there’s plans for a major upgrade at Terminal One…
Dublin Airport has revealed its proposal to move Terminal 1′s security, add new fast-track services and beef up its food and retail offering as part of a billion-euro plan to prepare for 10 million extra passengers from 2020.
Other proposed changes include installing a “barista bar” at the end of the airport’s fast-track security services, “spa-like showers” at executive lounges in Terminal 1 and a “rapid exit” at Terminal 1 to allow passengers with carry-on luggage only to avoid having to walk through the baggage hall.
Wet wipes and other sanitary products are causing more than 500 sewage blockages every month. In the first nine months of this year alone, Irish Water estimates that it removed almost 4,700 blockages caused by such items from the sewer network.
It cost over €7 million to remove these products, commonly known as ragging, from the sewer network in 2017. Last month, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly for tougher restrictions on single-use plastics, including wet wipes.
The Government is set to oppose a Bill that would increase the percentage of social and affordable housing in private residential developments and in strategic development zones. The Sinn Féin Bill seeks an increase in the provision of social and affordable housing to 25% in private residential developments and to 30% in strategic development zones.
The government will oppose the Bill, as it holds the view that it is “very likely that any increase in the social housing requirement imposed on developers could have an unintended impact on house prices”.
The degree to which landlords can be reprimanded under proposed new rules is still being discussed at government level. In April, Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy announced proposed new measures that would form part of the new Residential Tenancies Bill, including making it an offence for landlords with properties in RPZs to raise the rent above the legally allowed 4%.
At the time, the minister said a new sanctions regime would make it a criminal offence to breach the rules. He suggested that a number of measures would be rolled out and implemented by the RTB (Residential Tenancies Board), including fines. However, according to a source close to the housing minister, the detail to be agreed before the new Bill is brought to Cabinet either this week or next is around the level of powers the RTB will have in terms of sanctioning landlords.
South Dublin City Council will use excess heat from Amazon’s new data centre in Tallaght to warm nearby homes and businesses in Ireland’s first public system based around one of the power-hungry facilities. The local authority recently called for expressions of interest in a multimillion-euro contract to design, build and operate the ‘South Dublin District Heating System’.
A district heating system captures waste heat that is then redistributed to homes and premises around an area for functions such as central or water heating. Using “low-grade waste heat” from Amazon’s site at the old Jacob’s biscuit factory on Belgard Road, the heating will be supplied through an energy centre designed and installed by the cloud computing giant as part of its planning approval for the data centre.
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Thankfully no one was killed or seriously injured! Thinking back of the 2005 crash in Meath..
Donegal again¡¡¡
@Fank Pulman: what do you mean donegal again? Everytime theres multiple road deaths in anyother county its, soo sad this, rip that, but as soon as its in donegal its do they even know how to drive up there? Same crap everytime with you lot.
@Jonathan Kerr: “with you lot”??
@Dave Murray: most people here making comments on the journal.ie can’t stand donegal.
@Jonathan Kerr: the point been made is that you complained that everyone tars Donegal with this big brush. yet you have tarred all journal commantators with the same brush. Pot kettle black sort of situation
@Michael Hayden: ok im sorry about that.
@Fank Pulman: what do you mean ? Plenty of road deaths this week unfortunately were you on those saying cork or mayo again.
@Jonathan Kerr: for a county of a population no more than 160k…. Donegal has way too many accidents. Standards of driving and or the roads must be sub standard.
Can’t argue with statistics.
@Fabio Dillon: there were 10 fatalities on Donegal roads in ’16. 21 in Dublin. 158k ppl in Donegal and 1.8 million in Dublin.
Donegal roads are a joke.
Make everyone in that county resit their driving test.
@Pat Troy: or ban all vehicles¿!
@Pat Troy: glad no one seriously injured in this incident. Jog on Pat
@Fank Pulman: please explain
@Pat Troy: yes cause its not like theres car crashes in any other county in ireland.
@Pat Troy: Or maybe fix the roads which chuck vehicles off them as soon as a wheel slips off when someone coming the other way refuses to move over.
I live in donegal the roads are the problem not the drivers , the government needs to fix our roads too many Potholes and bad attempts to fix them on the cheap rain washes the temporary fillings out of potholes, i am relived nobody injured badly.
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