Calls to delay winding up Dublin Docklands Development Agency rejected

The Government rejected calls from the Public Accounts Committee to defer the dissolution of the Dublin Docklands Development Agency, until the Longboat Quay saga is concluded.

Documents from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to the PAC, seen by the Irish Examiner, show that the committee’s request to keep the DDDA alive was rejected by the Department of the Environment.

In its report into the botched sale of the Glass Bottle site in Ringsend which examined the role of the DDDA, the PAC said the dissolution of the DDDA should be deferred until any liabilities that arise for public authorities in respect of the structural deficiencies that now exist at the Longboat Quay apartment complex, are discharged.