Parts of Gorey was left without street lighting for two days recently, resulting in the Chairman of Wexford County Council, Cllr Malcolm Byrne, requesting that the Council enforce specific performance requirements on the Council’s contracts with Airtricity for the provision of public lighting in Gorey.
Cllr Byrne said: “Since New Year’s Eve, many parts of Gorey town, including the Main Street and Esmonde Street, have been left without public lighting for a total to date of eight nights. This is not acceptable and a clear breach of the performance requirements of Airtricity.”
He felt that if there had been storms, outages would be understandable, but “Airtricity does not seem to have a clear plan to address the problem of poor service in Gorey.”
The North Wexford public representative raised the concern at the April meeting of the County Council and following the latest set of problems, he is now seeking to have the contract with Airtricity reviewed with the possibility of putting it back out to tender.
“Gorey cannot be left without public lighting as often as it is happening. If Airtricity cannot get its act together, then we should invite someone else to take on the role,” he concluded.
Story in this week’s edition of THE GOREY ECHO.