Limerick.com - Questions Over Sale Of Public Land In Limerick

Environment Minister Dick Roche has accustomed as "odd" that neither the Earl of Limerick nor a trustee of the People's Park knew a five-storey block of apartments would be complete over a 0.44 acre website they disposed of to Limerick City Council.

But he fatigued that he would not be jumping to abstracts and fabricated bright that antecedent examinations by his administration had apparent "no impropriety" in affiliation to the development.

Minister Roche visited the city-limits just canicule afterwards the 7th Earl of Limerick, Edmund Pery, declared the development as a "blight" and an "insult" to its users and fabricated bright he would not accept adumbrated no argument to the development had he accepted what was planned at the time.

It was the third aristocrat that ancestral the acreage for the accouterment of a esplanade for the humans of Limerick in 1877.

"It is odd that humans who had an absorption in the acreage weren't acquainted of it but that is not to advance annihilation abnormal was done," Minister Roche told the Limerick Chronicle.

"The one affair you don't ambition is the Minister for the Environment dabbling his adenoids into every planning appliance that comes afore a bounded authority.
Whatever faults are in our planning process, clandestineness is absolutely not one of them. It is actual accessible and transparent," he said.

Minister Roche acicular out that "there was affluence of befalling for accessible submissions during the planning process" in account of the arguable development and went on to agenda that "the akin of accessible animadversion was limited."

But he promised to abide inquiries into the amount which was brought to his absorption by Government aide Minister of State Tim O'Malley.

"At this point we accept to be able to assure the humans that tlie procedures followed were adapted and able and I will be accepted accomplished the esplanade myself for a look," Minister Roche apprenticed on a appointment to Limerick.

Minister O'Malley has vowed to accumulate up the burden until a amount of abundant questions apropos the origins of the development are answered to his satisfaction.

"We now apperceive that Edmund Pery, the Earl of Limerick, is himself badly black about what has transpired and it couldn't be added accessible that Mr Pery feels that the extent, area and purpose of the architecture about which he was -approached was not conveyed to him in a aboveboard manner-the Earl's account makes that abundantly clear," Minister O'Malley said. www.limerick.com