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 Minister for Justice Alan Shatter Approximately 55,000 people are waiting for Garda clearance, which will enable them to work with vulnerable adults and children in community and voluntary services, latest figures from the Department of Justice have confirmed.
Around 290,000 individuals were vetted last year, however it is deemed necessary for people who have been ‘Vetted and Cleared‘ already once by the gardaí, that they must be vetted again, should they choose to work for a different organisation.
The Department of Justice, claim that the average waiting time is estimated at 10 weeks, however, many awaiting clearance state that they have been waiting for up to 16 weeks for clearance and cannot take up their appointed rolls due to these delays.
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter has stated his concerns at the length of time taken to process these vetting applications. He also confirmed that the Department of Finance had sanctioned the recruitment of 10 temporary employees to the GCVU in Thurles, Co Tipperary and these are now being recruited.
A report by the Joint Committee on the Constitutional Amendment on Children, chaired by Mary O’Rourke TD, which reported on the 11th September 2008, recommends that legislation be introduced to regulate and control the manner in which records of criminal convictions and information including “soft information” can be stored and deployed by An Garda Síochána and other Statutory Agencies for the purpose of child Protection.
 The mechanical and electrical sub-contractors, Michael J Tierney and Edward Clancy Electrical, respectively have now been appointed for the works involved in the construction of the two-storey enterprise centre at the Tipperary Institute Campus, Nenagh Road, Thurles.
The plans involve the connection to public water supply and foul and surface water mains, new storm water attenuation system, signage, use of existing entrance and all associated site works.
Main construction work commenced on this site during late February, with the contract period estimated at approximately nine months.
The architect is DH Ryan, the consulting engineer, PJ Brett and Associates and the main contractor is Clancy Construction.
Clancy Construction has been in construction and development since the 1940’s. Originally a traditional family business, the company now employs in excess of 250 full-time employees and develops large scale projects nationwide. The company, which has its Head Office in Thurles as well as offices in Cork, Waterford and Dublin, have vast experience in commercial, public sector and residential development.
The estimated cost of this completed project, in Co Tipperary, is €1.4 million.
 Dole Queue The towns of Thurles and Roscrea both recorded very slight decreases on the live register in North Tipperary between February and March last. The live register figure have fallen from 3,006 to 2,995 in the case of Thurles and from 1,455 to 1,450 in the case of Roscrea.
However the number of people signing on at Nenagh Social Welfare Office have now passed the 3,000 mark and now stand at 3,021 up from 2,996 at the end of February last .
According to updated figures from the Central Statistics Office, there are now a total of 7,466 names on the live register in North Tipperary, and the March overall totals represents a slight increase from the February figure of 7,457.
There are now 1,475 people under the age of 25 signing on in North Tipperary.
Overall county totals show that 4,648 unemployed are male, while the female figure has now increased to 2,818, with three times as many women as men being added to the live register over the last month.
The National Total at the end of March stands at 442,000, or an increase of 1,100 from February, having fallen in the previous two months.
 New Tesco Development, Roscrea A major Israeli investor, trading as RAVAD Ltd, is to invest €13m in a new Tesco store in Roscrea, Co Tipperary.
This property investment company is to ‘forward purchase’ the new Tesco store in the newly redeveloped town centre in Roscrea. Ravad plc, which is listed on the Israeli stock market, is to pay the €13 million for the 4,273sq m (45,000sq ft) supermarket in a deal that will show an expected return of 7%.
RAVAD Ltd and an unknown buyer acquired the 2.5 acre lot in County Tipperary from Tesco PLC on October 17th, 2010, with Ravad Ltd. acquired a 50% stake for €6.6 million. The other buyer acquired the remaining 50% stake.
Tesco will build a 4300 square meter supermarket on the lot and will lease back the premises for 15 years.
This sale may now encourage the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) to proceed with the disposal of some of the many Irish retail property assets presently under their control, following it’s ‘purchasing in’ of numerous distressed loans, all of which were acquired at substantial discounts.
The present Government has already indicated that it wishes Nama to proceed with its planned disposal programme. While the Tesco brand undoubtedly has a broad appeal among international investors, this decision by a major player, like Ravad Ltd, to invest in a provincial town in Ireland, will certainly take the Irish property market by surprise.
Currently under construction, this new store is being built above a 224 vehicle parking space area.
 Casino Gambling Architect Mr Brian O’Connell told the third day of An Bord Pleanála’s hearing into the Tipperary Casino proposed for Two Mile Borris that the project “is predicated on the licensing regime” and would depend on the present Government’s decision regarding the upgrading of Casino Laws. “There’s a new economic opportunity within the market for providing conference facilities within a casino hotel, the one wouldn’t proceed without the other” he stated.
However, he confirmed this would not affect the rest of the proposed complex, as the horse-racing aspect of the project is supported by Horse Racing Ireland, which invited expressions of interest for the development of an all-weather track in the Munster region some years ago. Existing tracks in Thurles and Tipperary (Limerick Junction) are expected to close, if this Tipperary Venue now is given the green light.
During questioning by sustainable planning expert and barrister James Nix, representing An Taisce, Mr O’Connell stated that the urban locations of venues such as the O2 in Dublin and the Odyssey Arena in Belfast were “inappropriate“, due to the influx of large numbers of people flooding into an urban setting for a short period of time. This situation now offered “strong argument” for the building of such venues outside existing city locations.
North Tipperary County Council granted planning permission for the project last year but the case was appealed to the board by some local residents and An Taisce who expressed concerns, include the level of traffic generated by this venue. Other concerns include noise, carbon emissions, helicopter use, the distance from public transport and the sustainability of such large-scale development.
However, presently across Europe, cash-broke governments have the impression that their way to reduce widening budget defecates are by taking up online gambling, a source of revenue they once viewed with justifiable distrust. Lot of European countries are currently planning to legalize online gambling and these include Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Denmark and France. Europe is the biggest online gambling market in the world and when this business is properly taxed, it will yield billions of euros to State coffers each year.
Presently large numbers of gamblers are being attracted towards Online Casino’s for the playing of Internet Poker and are moving sharply away from the land based Casino’s, as proposed for Two Mile Borris, Thurles, Co.Tipperary. This is since tax liability, in land based Casino’s is high and most of the offshore Online Casino’s remain out of reach of the dreaded tax collector. European governments are trying to bring this now indistinguishable business into the mainstream, by regulating and taxing them and bringing back worsening finances.
The Council of the European Union last December in their ‘Conclusions on the Framework for Gambling and Betting in the EU Member States,’ reminded us that major financial contributions, in particular from State Lotteries or Lotteries licensed by competent state authorities, play an important role in society, via for example the funding of good charitable causes, as presently with our ‘National Lottery’. People have only, even in the best of times, limited funds for gamboling. Their is now a real fear of the destabilizing of our state sponsored lottery, by allowing small monopolies and private gambling operators to hijack this arena, without considering the well being of all our citizens, particularly under the guise of providing imaginary future employment and at any cost.
It is interesting also to note that those now pushing this agenda are amongst those that benefited greatly from exceptional treatment, doled out during the ‘Celtic Tiger’ era, namely those in the Horse breeding industry, e.g. “covering fee,” which the European Commission have now deemed as an illegal form of state aid.
The hearing concluded yesterday, and a decision is expected by the end of this month.
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