LEIXLIP, 26 July: by Brian Byrne. A Leixlip councillor says that discussions with the ESB on the town's car parking problem appear to have been 'abandoned'. Catherine Murphy was expressing her 'unhappiness' with progress on the problem at the Leixlip Area Committee's recent meeting.
"We were told that the county manager had met with a private developer in relation to land at the rear of Xtravsion," she says. "Apparently he is waiting for this developer to get back to him and pending that he has deferred discussions with the ESB. I said I was very unhappy with this and felt a more appropriate term was 'abandoned'."
Cllr Murphy said she felt there was 'no commitment by the council to directly get involved in the provision of car parking' and that keeping all options open as the councillors had been told a few months ago by the manager was not what was happening. "I asked what discussions had occurred with the ESB in the recent past and did not get an adequate reply to this."
It was agreed by the committee that the manager should re-open discussions with the ESB.
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