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A REPORT COMMISSIONED by Dublin City Council has highlighted the divide between the affluent and the disadvantaged in the city.
The report forms part of the consultation process for the Local Economic and Community Plan and is intended to provide the public with the information needed put forward their own ideas on developing the city.
It contains a number of charts that show the stark reality of a city divided, particularly in terms of wealth and education.
The map below shows most of the wealth in Dublin is concentrated on the south-east coast. The areas on the outskirts of the city marked in blue are the most disadvantaged.
Data on educational attainment also shows a much higher proportion of people in the north of the city did not go beyond second level education.
In some of the more disadvantaged areas, the proportion of people who left school after primary level is up to 40%.
The Dublin City Council administrative area has the highest proportion of unskilled workers. By contrast, as the long black line in the chart above shows, more than one quarter of the people living in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown area are either employers or managers.
Fianna Fáil councillor Paul McAuliffe, who is chair of the council’s enterprise and economic development committee, told TheJournal.ie he believes this report is a “reality check for policymakers”.
“It’s very clear Dublin is a divided city and these issues are not related to the economic crash – this is something that goes back over 200 years.”
The councillor said he believes social housing plans have been a huge contributing factor to what we can see in these maps, saying it is “clear it has had a generational knock-on effect”.
For him, the most worrying chart is the one below, which clearly shows the large proportion of 25 to 34 year olds living in the city.
“There’s that bulge coming through the system of 30 to 34 year olds. In the 80s there was a shortage of primary schools because of this group, in the 90s a shortage of third level places and in the noughties, a shortage of housing, and now childcare.
He is asking individual members of the public, as well as community and other interest groups, to take part in the consultation process and put forward “radical” ideas for change in Dublin city.
The deadline for submissions is the end of this month and more details on the plan and how to take part can be found here.
The French ATC workers should not be Allowed to hold us to ransom, they’ve caused chaos in the past. French strikes have caused chaos in Calais recently too. There should be a euro wide ATC service and an end to ATC ruining holidays and costing businesses millions.
At least the French (and Germans, and Spanish, and Italians….well pretty much every other European country out there) has the balls to drop tools and protest when they are being royally shafted unlike us piss wimpy Irish who bend over and take it with glee!
I agree, but how many people are EU sceptics (including me) demanding return of soverinty, but when is covinient then people demans more integration, such as the example of an Euro ATC which would take control of our sovereign skies, which one is it, integration or back to the EEA?
No doubt the French Air Traffic Controllers take the pi$$ but if Mick in Ryanair had his way we would all be working for tuppence halfpenny an hour…
There must be a middle ground…
French ATC workers are extremely well paid and just flex their muscles every now and then…generally to get even more. Greedy people who don’t give a monkey’s for anyone else.
As for Danish civil servants being banned from using Ryanair…..presume that is forbbusiness, or does their employer dictate how they can spend their own cash?
Why dont they get bilderbergs to help squash the People’s rights to strike!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bobby, don’t be daft most EU states have legislation that prevents critical services from striking Spain, Germany, Italy and Ireland included!!
It makes sense that critical services are available
Unions wreaking Europe 24/7
The French in general are bad B******* 2when it comes to industrial relations with police standing idly by while fires rage on train tracks, lorries are invaded by foreign nationals and their government sit on their hands and do SFA frankly. It’s an annual beano insofar as the airlines are concerned but no one gives a toss . They need sorted out !
Michael forget those troublesome Danes go speak with Kim e yung of North Korea just opened a new airport and no fear of strikes there.
If it was not for strike then Employers would take advantage of employees.Already employees are being taken advantage of by employers because of the state of the economy.Everyone should have the right to strike and the French air traffic controllers have that right like anyone else.In France if the rail go on strike then the union tells the air traffic controllers to go on strike too on their behalf so it is not necessarily the Controllers on all those occasions with the issues
As for Michael O Leary he treats his own staff terribly yet people in Ireland think he’s great and admire his business ideas, yet those business ideas rids employees of any rights, treats them like s**t, pays them the lowest of what he can get away with while he has brought down flight costs he devalues the customers rights,and treats passengers like crap too
I agree.
Why doesn’t Michael publish the contracts and terms and conditions of these zero hour contract employees.
He’s great for shouting about the great terms and conditions of those who work for him but is very secretive about publishing the contracts.
Why the secrecy?
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