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MONDAY, MAY 20, 2013
Carrigaline plan for northside
PLANS for a €50 million Cork town that will be home to 12,500 people will be scrutinised today. An oral hearing into the plan for a new settlement at Monard to the north of the city starts today at County Hall. The town may not be in place for 30 years. It will be located between Blackpool and Blarney. An Bord Pleanála has set a July deadline for approval or disapproval of the county council plans following submissions made at the oral hearing this week. If the Monard plan goes ahead, it will be only the second planned settlement in the country and will have five schools, sports facilities and a 1km-long country park. Brendan O’Sullivan, programme director at Centre for Planning Education and Research in University College Cork (UCC), said the town could do for the northside of the city what Carrigaline did for the southside. ● See page seven.
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Divert aid to feed our needy
THE Government should divert some of the money it sends to the needy in Third World countries to help feed ‘our own’.
SVP boss wants Third World cash used for feeding our poor
That’s according to regional vice president of St Vincent De Paul, Brendan Dempsey, who has accused the GovernWorld countries and just feed our own. ment of being ‘completely unaware of I am not asking for social welfare for the suffering and desperation of them, just food, that’s all,” said Mr. people’ here. Dempsey. The charity’s annual report for St Vincent De Paul now estimates 2012 reveals they spent €7.8 million that up to 3,000 in the city alone are in in the city and county helping people receipt of their assistance. in need last year. “Some of these families need our “The crisis isn’t easing one bit. If help just once or twice a year, while anything, it’s getting worse,” he said. others need it more regularly,” said Mr He also said that 30 families in the Dempsey. city relied totally on the charity as The charity has also reported an inthey are not entitled to anything from crease in the number of people coming the State. to them for help with fuel costs because “These are tradesmen who were of the prolonged winter; has helped stuself-employed and are not entitled to dents with food and accommodation social welfare, business men and and those whose families have been women who used to employ staff, pay unable to pay registration fees. income tax, rates and many other “We’re inundated with calls and are taxes; the odd ex-millionaire who has Dempsey: Divert overseas funds to help our needy. busier now in middle class and affluent lost everything. Many of these people areas than in working class areas.” went bust because they could not collect By DEIRDRE O’REILLY The €7.8m figure includes the cost of the tens of thousands of euro owed to running its two shelters which provide them by big contracting companies,” said Mr Dempsey, who also highlighted the Government to divert some overseas 120 beds every night. In 2012 the charity spent €6 million, explight of young people who are returning funding to them. “I’m asking the Government to divert cluding the cost of running the shelters, from abroad and who are not entitled to just a little of the monies being spent sup- and in 2011 its costs for the year were anything from the State. The charity boss has now called on the porting the unfortunate poor in Third €5.5 million.
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