Housing a key election issue
BY TARA O'LIATH.
A well attended meeting in Ringsend was held to highlight the ongoing
housing crisis in Dublin in general and the South East Inner City in
particular.
Daithí Doolan also used the opportunity to launch Sinn Fein's Integrated
Plan for the area, `RB2K' - Ringsend Beyond 2000. The plan calls for a more
open community-based approach to any future planning developments in the
community. It also calls for an immediate halt to high rise developments in
the Docklands area.
``Planning is an issue of democracy,'' said Doolan. ``People have a right to
decide how their community will be developed and who it's developed for.
The planning laws are anti-community and anti-people. It's time this was
changed. This planning document offers the community a strong alternative
to the present planning agenda, which is dictated by big business
developers.''
One local resident called on people to support a proposed march to be held
in Dublin on 6 June. This march has been called by communities from the
North and South Inner City to oppose proposed high rise developments.