For the City Council Sports Policy to commit to include single stand alone swimming pools as an important part of its strategic policy towards the development of sport and leisure in the city.

For this strategic policy to acknowledge the important role that the councils owned and managed stand alone swimming pools play in the teaching, education and coaching of swimming and life saving in particular for young people.

For the City Council Sports Policy to further commit as part of its strategic policy to work with the user groups of the existing stand alone swimming pools in improving the efficiency of the management of these pools.

This commitment to stand alone pools will remain as strategic policy until such time as all existing council owned and managed stand alone swimming pools are replaced by integrated regional sports and leisure centres.

With this renewed strategic policy for the continuance of stand alone swimming pools the Culture, Recreation and Amenity department will actively seek financial and grant aid from all funding agencies for assistance in the running and maintenance of the current pools.

Cllr Joan Collins

The follow is a copy of the Managers Report 13/11/09:
The proposal to close the 3 pools emanate from a number of circumstances.
a) All three pools are over 30 years old, have reached the end of their design life and are effectively obsolete.
b) The adopted City Council Sports Policy is to provide integrated regional sports and leisure centres with a range of facilities including, pool, gym, steamroom/sauna, aerobics studios, sports halls, all-weather floodlit pitches; these top-class facilities to be located in commercial urban growth centres. This allows a range of family sport activities to be combined with other activities such as shopping, visit to library, restaurant visit etc. and generates more users. None of the 3 pools fulfil the above requirements. No credible marketing campaign could be mounted round any of them.
c) All 3 pools are grossly underused with previous users moving to other modern facilities both private and public.

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I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in Dublin 12 and Dublin 6W a very happy and prosperous New Year. However, I know this year will be very difficult for the 200,000 people who have lost their jobs in this crisis.

In a statement today Cllr Joan Collins, People Before Profit Alliance welcomed the decision of Dublin City Council to keep Crumlin swimming pool open.

She said "The decision not to close the pool from January 1 is a victory fro people power. The community should give themselves a very big clap on the back for forcing this turnaround. In response to the initial statement from Dublin City Council a vigorous and determined community campaign to Save Our Swimming Pool S.O.S was set up. It is testament to that determination from parents, school users and the workers in the pool that DCC have stepped back from the drastic closure of the swimming pool.

I am calling on DCC to make the same positive decision for Sean McDermott Street and Coolock swimming pools.

The local campaign wants to investigate setting up a management board, made up of the pool workers, schools and parents, to give the pool a new lease of life so that it will be used to it’s full potential.”

Cllr Collins looks forward to a positive dialogue with the Council officials over the next number of months.

Contact Joan Collins 086 3888151

In a statement tonight People Before Profit Councillor Joan Collins condemned the decision of Dublin City Council to sack six engineers whose responsibilities include water and flood defence. With the backing of Councillor Brid Smyth a motion has been tabled for the next meeting of the Council calling for the decision to be reversed.

Yes side should engage in a serious debate on the Treaty
EU Policies mean pain for Irish workers

At a public meeting in Crumlin tonight local People Before Profit Councillor, Joan Collins, said that an unholy alliance of big business, politicians, trade union leaders and the Labour Party were attempting to scare the public into accepting the Lisbon Treaty.

“Yesterday we had Brian Lenihan, Michael O Leary, David Begg and Eamonn Gilmore all threatening us with job losses and economic doom if we vote no. This is despite the fact that there is nothing in the Treaty that will create jobs. Indeed the Referendum Commission has that the treaty “contains no provisions” on jobs levels.

It is absolutely shameful that the leaders of the trade union movement and the Labour Party should be joining in this chorus of threats rather than engaging in a real debate about the treaty.

We say that the policies of the EU and the Irish government have got us into the recession and the policies of the EU will not get us out of it. Indeed they will lead to further pain for ordinary taxpayers.