Poll: Should Dublin Port be uprooted for housing?

It has been suggested the facility could make way for 40,000 units.

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By Conor McMahon Deputy editor, Fora

THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE of Dublin Chamber dismissed economist David McWilliams’ suggestion that the capital’s port should be moved to make way for housing.

Writing on Fora, Mary Rose Burke described the theory that reclaimed land in Dublin Port could help solve the city’s housing crisis as “impressive” but a distraction from bigger issues.

In an Irish Times column published earlier this month, McWilliams said land in Dublin Port could provide up to 40,000 units with plenty of space left over for cafés, offices, shops, museums and other facilities.

However, Burke said Dublin’s capacity problem doesn’t lie in a lack of space but how it’s used: “It is past governments – both local and national – that have created our congestion problems, not the Irish Sea.”

With that in mind, we’re asking Fora readers this week: Should Dublin Port be uprooted for housing?

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