Since our last update, a lot of work has been happening behind the scenes.

Over the past number of weeks, we have pursued Freedom of Information requests and Parliamentary Questions to understand what planning, funding and delivery decisions actually exist for Donabate’s essential services — and where gaps remain.

Here is what has now been formally confirmed by public bodies:

🚓 Policing & Safety:

An Garda Síochána has confirmed that:

• Donabate is not included in the Garda Capital Investment Programme (2023–2030)
• No planning, feasibility or capital records exist for a Garda station in the town
• Policing continues to rely on services based outside Donabate

🏥 Healthcare

Official correspondence and recent independent reporting confirm that:

• The planned Primary Care Centre for Donabate did not proceed after the tender collapsed
• No replacement delivery timeline has been confirmed
• Residents are being directed to services in Swords, despite national policy supporting community-based care

🏫 Schools

Parliamentary replies confirm that:

• New primary schools are identified in policy, but delivery is deferred
• The Gaelscoil site acquisition has not been completed and no construction timeline exists
• No additional post-primary school is currently planned

🚌 Transport & Emergency Access

• Records released by transport authorities show that:
• Donabate remains a constrained-access settlement
• Many local transport and active travel projects are planned for post-2027 or later
• No published settlement-level emergency access or response modelling exists

What This Means:

Housing development in Donabate has moved ahead quickly — but essential services rely on separate, non-binding processes, often delivered years later and by different agencies.

This is not about one missing project.

It is about the absence of a coordinated, cross-departmental plan to ensure services keep pace with population growth. 

Why the Petition Matters More Than Ever Based on the evidence now available, residents are calling for:

➡️ A Cross-Departmental Donabate Infrastructure & Services Review, involving policing, health, education, transport, utilities and Fingal County Council, to produce:

• a published plan
• realistic timelines
• interim supports where services are already under pressure
• and ongoing public updates

This petition is not anti-housing.

It is a positive, evidence-based call for joined-up planning so Donabate can grow safely, sustainably and fairly.

Thank you to everyone who has signed and shared so far.

Your support is helping ensure that Donabate’s future is shaped by facts, transparency and common sense.

💚 Please keep sharing, every signature strengthens the case.