Sir, – In 1998, a comprehensive plan for the regeneration of O’Connell Street was launched by Dublin City Council, with input from other government agencies. The promise of a new main street remains unfulfilled 28 years later. What was needed then as now is capacity to implement vision.
I would not wish to be unkind to Robert Watt as he moves to the new role of regeneration tsar. But where is his track record of “implementation”? The national children’s hospital unfinished and a health serviceunder strain?
The absence of a competitive process for this position also flies in the face of best practice. Surely the Public Appointments Service must have a role in such highly paid jobs? – Yours, etc,
DOROTHY BARRY,
RM Block
Glasnevin Village,
Dublin 9.
