Frankie Daly Takes Aim with “Mayoral Shopping List”
There are over 30 projects on Cllr Daly’s Shopping List, including: an FAI Regional Centre of Excellence for Limerick, the upgrade and reopening of Kilmallock train station, the acceleration and promotion of a GAA Centre of Excellence at Patrickswell, a Regional Command Centre under the control of an assistant commissioner for the Midwest, and a roll out of HAPPEE across Limerick City and County (Health Alliances for Practice-based Professional Education and Engagement).
The list also includes an awards pool to “inspire excellence throughout Limerick.” These include Community Pride of Place annual awards (portion of €250k over five years), a Small Business and Start-Up Innovation Award Fund (portion of €250k over five years), and a Sporting Excellence Annual Award (portion of €250k over five years). These will be funded by the Mayoral budget.
Cllr Daly has also included high-priority projects that he will focus on with the creation of “expert-led task forces.”
“As I’ve been saying throughout this election campaign, the job of the Mayor will be bringing stakeholders together for the good of Limerick,” Cllr Daly said. “I have spoken to management in UHL, and they have told me specifically what’s needed to improve services. They need at least 200 additional beds to meet demand, and I see it as the Mayor’s job to create a working group that will identify how the existing Government’s plans for UHL can be expedited and get those beds on the grounds of the hospital as a matter of critical urgency. This is the least that the people can expect from the Mayor when it comes to fighting for the health of all Limerick people.”
Other ‘high-priority’ projects on Cllr Daly’s ‘Shopping List’ include a northern distributor road around Limerick City, the N21 Newcastle West Road Scheme, a reduction in the Hospitality VAT rate to 9%, a zero VAT rate for self-build houses, and a recruitment drive for special needs support services such as occupational and speech and language therapies.
“These are the issues that the people of Limerick really care about, so I wanted to put them on a list and let the people see what they will be voting for,” Cllr Daly said. “This is the list that my success or failure as Mayor will be measured against.”
