City regeneration plan relaunched in €250m package

Limerick city’s regeneration plan, launched in 2007 with a €3bn goal of transforming four black- spot estates, was reignited yesterday with a revised €250m package over 10 years.

Unveiling the plan at Thomond Park, housing minister, Jan O’Suillivan said: “The clear message to go out today is that the Government is firmly committed to the successful regeneration of Limerick. We are giving regeneration a new impetus, a new focus and look forward to the acceleration of the construction projects throughout the city.”

There was a major public outcry in Jan 2012, when the Irish Examiner revealed that not a single house had been built in the four estates despite €116m having been allocated to the regeneration programme at that point.