Hotel next to plant used for homeless families
were also “immensely preferable to Clonshaugh on planning, engineering, environmental and cost benefit grounds”.
Mr Broughan referenced a tank failure last month at the Ringsend plant that caused a “large plume of sewage to be discharged into the Liffey”. Very unpleasant odours last summer along the Sutton coast had been attributed, by residents, to the Ringsend plant. The potential contamination of the marine environment in Baldoyle Bay was “unconscionable”, he said. The bay was designated as part of aSinn Féin councillor Larry O’Toole said that of all the sites proposed for the plant, Clonshaugh was the closest to a large population with hundreds of homes in the immediate vicinity., one floor of which was being used to accommodate homeless families. “These families will unfortunately be living there for the foreseeable future.
Mr O’Toole highlighted concerns about the environmental impact of the plant in the immediate area and along the coast. “In recent months there have been issues regarding water quality, and it is likely that this plant would deteriorate bathing water quality in the bay even further.”
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