Chapter 7
Economy and Employment
Issues / Recommendations / Observations
Sub. No.
Chief Executive’s Response & Recommendation
procurement and to identify best practice local enterprise to promote better understanding of social enterprise.
City, and bring new collaborative ways of delivering responsible entrepreneurship, underpinned by sustainable design and circularity. The benefits include the creation of significant direct economic benefits including resilient job creation, new sustainable business opportunities and true cost reductions. The policy objectives in the Draft Plan are designed to be inclusive in relation to the broad spectrum of employment uses in the City, including Tourism. Paragraph 7.71 of the Draft Plan sets out how Cork City Council is working with Fáilte Ireland and other stakeholders to prepare a Destination Experience Development Plan for Cork City and East Cork. Chapter 7 also acknowledges the need to broaden the City’s tourism base to include leisure tourism by developing the tourism products and activities in the City. Issues raised relating to tourism operational matters are outside the scope of the Development Plan. Recommendation: No change. Paragraph 7.61 addresses the Maritime / Blue Economy. This includes supports for “the development of the maritime economy by facilitating the education, research and development and professional services that relate to the maritime e conomy”. No commercial sea fishing takes place in the River Lee, Douglas Estuary and tributaries leading into it within Cork City Council ’s functional area. Recommendation: No change. The Draft Plan supports universal design in the public realm. Paragraph 3.94 sets out that t he National Disability Authority’s Universal Design Guidelines – “Building for Everyone: A Universal Design Approach” (2012) should be taken
This submission seeks the inclusion of more diverse tourism facilities in the city. They give the example of a tourist train in the city and express their view that the tourism business environment in Cork City is uneven and unfair catering only for the few. 4
This submission puts forward that the evaluation of potential impacts on any commercial sea fishing activities needs to be given consideration as part of any planning / proposal process and during the development phase. Noting that impacts to fisheries should be included as a potential negative impact listed in the SEA. Also to amend the wording of paragraph 6.64 as it appears in the SEA and NIS respectively. 24
Offshore Commercial Fisheries
This submission makes recommendations to Chapter 7 to ensure that the development of Cork city will enable 99
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