Meeting to discuss Clyde House 'wet house' plans
GOVERNMENT ministers, deputies, local councillors, HSE officials and city residents will all sit down around a table this Monday to discuss the controversial plans to install a 'wet house' in Clyde House.
At a meeting held this week, the South Circular Road Residents Association agreed to give their support to a group of Alphonsus Street residents and business people who have been strenuously fighting the relocation of the Bridgeland House homeless shelter - inside of which clients are permitted to drink alcohol - to Clyde House.
Local councillor Maria Byrne - who was present at that meeting - says the residents have now been granted a meeting with all relevant parties at City Hall this coming Monday. Amongst those in attendance will be Minister for Defence Willie O'Dea, the Fine Gael councillor said.
"We have arranged for the residents to meet with councillors, TDs, ministers and representatives from the HSE. My own party colleagues Michael Noonan and Kieran O'Donnell will be in attendance and we have received confirmation that Minister Willie O'Dea will also join us."
The meeting will take place at 12 noon in City Hall on Monday but will only be open to all the relevant parties and members of the press will not be permitted entry.
High up on the agenda will be what residents see as the HSE's vetoing of the grounds of St Joseph's Hospital as a potential site for the wet house's relocation. Novas Initiatives - the organisation which runs Bridgeland House - had earmarked St Joseph's as a very suitable location but the HSE claimed it was in the process of planning the overall development of the hospital at the time and could not consider an application from Novas.
Also among the concerns outlined by the group is the fact that several schools, a college, churches, pubs, off-licences and businesses are in close proximity to Clyde House.
Residents were shocked last month when the Department for the Environment allocated €12.6m for the purchase and refurbishment of Clyde House. It followed an application made by Novas Initiatives made through city council but the final allocation was surprising as the application to buy the building was initially thought to be in the region of €3.5m. The building is currently being used as an asylum seekers hostel.
Money received from the Department will be used to purchase Clyde House and relocate the wet house, currently in Bridgeland House on St John's Square, to the new premises
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