Dublin City Council to be sentenced for safety breaches
Dublin City Council is to be sentenced at the Circuit Criminal Court for breaching provisions of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 1989 arising out of an excavation project near the city centre.
Mr Eugene O'Reilly, senior engineer, pleaded guilty on behalf of the Council to failing to take measures to ensure the site was safe by failing to put in place "an adequate exclusion zone" around the excavation works at Lower Mount Street, on June 9, 2003.
Mr Paul Greene BL, prosecuting, told Judge Desmond Hogan that the Director of Public Prosecutions wished to enter a nulli prosequi in relation to five other charges of breaches of the provisions and would not be proceeding with a scheduled trial.
Judge Hogan adjourned sentencing to a later date when all evidence in the case will be heard.
