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Councillor Gaye Fagan, Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald and Councillor Janine Boylan arriving at Government Buildings this evening RollingNews.ie
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THE TAOISEACH HAS heard calls to create a ‘Docklands Tax’ to help tackle problems in Dublin’s north inner city.
A meeting earlier this evening saw Enda Kenny meet with all public representative from the Dublin Central constituency – the area where much of the recent gangland activity has taken place.
Also in attendance at the meeting were Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald, minister for public expenditure and reform Paschal Donohoe and minister of state Damien English.
Speaking at the meeting, Workers’ Party councillor Éillis Ryan proposed levying a tax on large businesses in the Docklands and International Financial Services Centre (IFSC).
“The north inner city requires large-scale, sustained public investment to help reverse the neglect of decades,” said Ryan.
Businesses in the Docklands and the IFSC have benefited hugely not only from their prime location in the north inner city, but also from a range of state support and infrastructural investment.
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Speaking at a press briefing earlier this evening, minister Donohoe did not offer a specific response to the proposal, but said that the redevelopment of the area would be part of a strategy to tackle social problems.
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As part of this there are plans to further invest in the Docklands, which Dublin City Council has designated as a Strategic Development Zone.
There are also plans for a large residential construction project is set to begin later this year at the top of Sheriff Street.
The meeting today also focused on security issues in the north inner city.
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said that she was “very conscious” that the “heavy garda presence is very difficult for the families”, and that she was working toward a situation where “normal policing” could resume.
It was also mentioned that community policing is at the heart of plans for the north inner city.
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Jaysus..when will this country (workers party councillors) in north inner city dublin ever learn what hypocricy is!! Tax and taxes do not solve a problem. People solve a problem. You cannot keep taxing and taxing and taxing and expect the social problems to go away.even if the IFSC paid €10million in tax, will that solve the unsocial behaviour of a few- the answer is no, the money would be p!ssed down the drain, the gangs and other unsociables would still be there and the IFSC will move to another location. Lesson – don’t bite the hand that feeds you. Get of your arses and deal with the problem( I bet most people know who’s causing the problems).
Ah here, this is ridiculous at this stage. Seems to be the governments solution to all problems. Tax bloody everything!!! Why should businesses in the IFSC have to front the bill when its the government that have cut the Garda’s Budget in the first place? Just goes to show you how backward thinking this government is.
Ah Jenni and Carina should you not address that question to FF, FG and Labour after all those are the parties in power who have heaped taxes on the working people of this state since it was established?
There’s not really a value proposition is there? tell you what Mr. Investment corporation, if you give us millions in tax, we’ll use it to house intra generational social welfare dependents in your area, just to put off any prospective customers or employees you might want to attract. Come to think of it there’s a similar scheme operating in my estate… ah well, great little country.
Where does this end? Will it spread to other areas of Dublin? Maybe we all have to end up paying some of protection tax soon to the government? Nothing short of legal racketeering this is.
Welfare gets taxed at a progressively higher rate the longer you are unemployed, that is available to you as back-to-work tax credits if you commence/return to work.
There was an option if a party that said they would make work worthwhile at the last election but no one voted for them.
Maybe now that most of the people who the public seemed to despise have left Renua, they might actually develop into a centre-right opposition to counter this left wing nonsense while also challenging the FF-FG Cartel
I live in the inner city and I am completely against this. It is NOT the responsibility of business to sort out a culture of crime, drugs and laziness…it is the people who live there. The amount of services available to the labelled “disadvantaged” is beyond belief.
It is up to the people themselves to cop on and take advantage of the fact they live in the city centre of a major city with universities, training centres, amenities,etc within walking distance. By giving them more money and even more resources in their community is only making their circle smaller.
Why not just a North inner city tax to help the north inner city community? I know a castleknock tax to help the community of mulhuddart. Or a Maynooth tax to help the people of mohill. Idiots in power.
@paul mc – This waffle should not be tolerated. Nxt we’ll hear of an educational programme – to teach people right from wrong. These proposals are utter scutter.
Those internaitonal businesses and the people who work in them already pay for the north inner city. their taxes fund their dole and free socail housing. What more do these people want from us, a free trip to Disneyland every year? Tell them to take a hike, stop dealing and taking drugs and get themselves and education and a job. Take some responsibility and quit blaming everyone else for your problems or trying to take from others in the usual irish begrudging manner.
No Kerry. But the fact that you have to point to a minority not being referee to just to make your point shows how weak it is.
72% of people on the housing support scheme are 100% dependent on social welfare… ie the rest of us taxpayers. People who lost their jobs had already been paying their PRSI so therefore have contributed and hence deserve to claim from the system when they fall on hard times
As it’s only a few minutes walk from a city centre where at least half the shop assistants seem to come from every corner of the globe ……. and fair play to them ……. many working there probably commuting an hour or two as well – I often wonder at the auld deprivation guff and unemployment whinges as well.
Exactly, well said. Yet Gary Gannon and the other Stalinist left wingers would have us believe that this area is neglected. The area gets more per head of population than anywhere in the country.
Never forget that it is the mission of the left to keep people dependent on social welfare so they can keep spending and keep the votes coming in. Ideas of personal responsibility and EQUALITY don’t even come into it. Just keep pouring resources into these areas no matter how unequal it is to the rest of the country.
Maybe the salt of the earth locals could take a bit of pride in their area. Some areas are tidy but Sheriff St is constantly covered in litter while Ballybough has untagged bin bags all along it and by the canal too. It isn’t workers in the IFSC dumping there
If you’re really worried about getting murdered then you’re probably involved in the feud. There’s a slim chance that you’d get targeted if you’re innocent in all liklihood. If these people don’t care about their area then why should we!
Really? It’s someone else’s fault and someone else has to pay for the laziness and attitude of the perennially entitled in the North Inner City?
How about instead of that we bring in the army and operate a zero tolerance approach while we train them out of generations of leeching off the taxpayers.
I’ve lived and worked there. People CHOOSE to be criminals. It’s nothing to do with poverty or lack of privilege.
How about we audit each family and see what they have contributed to the republic they’re always bleating on about.
The many decent people who live in the area deserve better policing and a much harder line with the endemic criminality there. It’s time to stamp it out once and for all.
A little to late Enda , I suppose its a good PR stunt & an opportunity to let on you give a flying f#ck to the ordinary decent people of the north inner city
Why don’t they ship all the trouble makers out of this area and into jails. The people working in the IFSC are probably commuting from all over the place to get there so why tax these people more.
They should clear out these ghettos and build a proper inner city. It’s embarrassing having tenement flats in the city centre. The tax proposal is ridiculous. That’s the quickest way to kill business in the area because all they’d need to do is move offices to the south side or a peripheral business park to avoid it.
They have Gaelteacht areas with special tax rules to suit certain politicians needs. A list of Gaelteacht areas would be interesting as Meath has a special rate in their Gaelteacht. Did Bertie sort out a special arrangement for his daughter and husbands tax?
You know what would pay for that without taxing people AND help regenerate the area… The commercial rates on a few 40+ story office towers in the docklands.
You know, it’s not a bad idea for the government to introduce a policy that the proceeds from buildings over 25 storeys will be directly redistributed to less well off areas in the inner city. That might be a way to entice certain left-wingers in Dublin city council to stop blocking high rise developments.
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