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THE QUESTION OF universal access for the Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square in Dublin could be resolved soon.
Deputy Gerry Adams recently asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin, the reason why the majority of the Garden of Remembrance is inaccessible to wheelchair users or those with impaired mobility.
The garden has steps in some areas which affects access for wheelchair users and those of restricted mobility.
Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brian Hayes, gave him the latest update in the situation.
He pointed out that the reason behind the lack of universal access was due to the time when the garden was constructed.
“When the Garden of Remembrance was designed in 1940 and opened in 1966 as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Easter Rising the provision of universal access was neither a planning requirement nor considered a necessity,” he said in an answer to the parliamentary question to Deputy Adams. “Universal access to the sunken pool and grassed areas was not provided.”
Journey of Light Memorial
However, this situation could change in the coming months.
Hayes said that as part of the planning application submitted to Dublin City Council in October 2012 for the proposed ‘Journey of light Memorial’ to the Victims of Abuse in Institutions – which would be located at the western end of the Garden of Remembrance – an accessibility appraisal was carried out.
This appraisal took into account the existing layout of the Garden and was submitted to Dublin City Council in November 2012.
Hayes said that planning permission for the proposed Memorial was granted on 19 May, 2013, but this was appealed to An Bord Pleanála. The decision of An Bord Pleanála is expected by 8 October 2013.
If the Journey of Light Memorial project is approved, Hayes said it “will address the majority of accessibility issues including the sunken pool area”.
He noted that universal access to the main plinth area, where the Children of Lir statue is located, will then be the outstanding issue. It is hoped to address this in due course, said Hayes, “mindful that any proposed interventions will have to have regard to the uniqueness and status of the Garden”.
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It’s so hot today I tried watching frozen and it played Auqaman!
@larry smith: Global warming will benefit some countries.
@thomas molloy: Yeah? Which ones?
@Tricia G28: being in Athenry, I’m not complaining :)
Tomorrow is may 1st. Is it really that uncommon to have sunny weather in summer. Sure it will probably be cold again next week. Give over with the scare mongering.
@Gavin Smartr: Where in the article is there any element of a ‘scare’? It talks about ‘a lovely sunny day’ etc.
If records for April is broken, that will just be a fact.
@Brendan O’Brien: If records for April *are* broken, I meant.
@Brendan O’Brien: when ireland get nice weather there’s always a record broken according to this site. We are all doomed I tells ya. It’s the same agenda all the time and this article is just a tickler for the next one. The journal are infatuated with climate change or whatever they’re calling it now.
@Gavin Smartr: Climate change is a massive issue, the ‘agenda’ is science and real-world experience, and you seem a bit obsessed yourself.
@Gavin Smartr: April and May is spring, summer doesn’t start until June. The amount of people who incorrectly think May is summer is amazing.
@Brendan O’Brien: Some of these keyboard warriors think a lovely sunny day is a scary notion. Can’t be leaving bright sunlight penetrate the troll cave, y’know.
@Gavin Smartr: No mention of climate change in the article, just from yourself as a representative of the easily triggered
@Gavin Smartr: “If facts hurt your feelings, then your feelings need to change”.
@Gavin Smartr: The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 degrees at Kilkenny Castle on June 26th, 1887
@thomas molloy: very likely a faulty reading
@John Doe: why do kneecap /SF trigger you SO much? Lol lol lol
@Gavin Smartr: Can you point out where exactly in the article there was a ‘scare’?
Please do enlighten us . I am curious as to how you came to such a conclusion.
@Gavin Smartr: Absolute nonsense
Enjoy it cause it won’t last,
@Ned: nothing ever does
@Ned: Well the sun will still be where it always is , the air might cool but in general it will last for the next 4/5 billion years.
@Paul O’Mahoney: yep.
But but but numbers mean nothing. It was cold last week. Typical climate change deniers BS.
@FoxyBoiiYT: The only person I see whinging is yourself.
@Ger Whelan: So you don’t see Gavin Smarts comment? Interesting how you ignore all facts you find unhelpful
But yet the weather app is saying it never got above 21 degrees today in Waterford.
@RobbieK: because it didn’t. The headline is completely misleading.
@RobbieK: Well done….ludder
@RP McGuinness: yes it did. I have nice old fashioned brass thermometer and hygrometer, and mine recorded just over 25 Deg C yesterday.
Lovely.
Is the Journal going to “fact-check” and “deboonk” its own headline here?
@RP McGuinness: Don’t destroy a good story but…….The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland was 33.3 degrees at Kilkenny Castle on June 26th, 1887
@thomas molloy: On January 29, 1886, Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine.” The patent – number 37435 – may be regarded as the birth certificate of the automobile. So maximum temperature has dropped since cars were introduced. The red faced party must be embarrassed
@thomas molloy: the only issue with that statement is that, the weather station that recorded that record, was shut done almost 100 years ago. So the record could have been broken many times since.
The price of a pair of shorts in town just shot up. So much money: so little cloth. I’m cutting the legs off a pair of jeans. Let them fray, they’ll be up around my cheeks by the end of August.
You could fry a egg on a frying pan out there today, if you had a fire
@P. V. Aglue: Or an egg..
@P. V. Aglue:
Or a frying pan..
@Geraldine O’Riordan: or Sally O’Brien and the way she might look at you .
@P. V. Aglue: and sally o’brian and the way she might look at ya
@P. V. Aglue: and you could certainly sink a pint of Harp… if you had a sink.
@Stephen Wallis: Smithwicks, are you going for a pint?
@P. V. Aglue: Could sink a pint of Bass now if I had a pint of bass.Ah! that’s Bass!!
Enjoy the sun everybody. Ignore the climate change alarmists with their doom fables and made-up new age “science”
It’s feckin great though
George Lee will be all excited..more so called climate journalism to bore the country to death with ..its all the cars fault we have a week of summer in April.
Not to worry – Carbon taxes increase tomorrow will sort it out.
What about the latest EU directive to position a dimmer switch on the sun …
Pretend we don’t like it, the greens sorry green might tax us per degree above 20.
It has been a great few days of summer. Can’t wait for its return in September.
Bwahh, don’t forget the bactor 50
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