The Green Party’s Galway West candidate Pauline O’Reilly has slammed the new busking bye-law, suggesting the Council are pandering to businesses in the city.
The Galway City Council (Street Performance and Busking) Bye-Laws 2018 which passed yesterday, prohibits amplification until after 6pm.
Pauline O’Reilly says that “I cannot support the decision to implement this restrictive bye-law.
“Business in the city brings in 40% of the Council’s income and this appears to have been key to the decision to pass this restrictive bye-law.
“Public representatives however are there to support communities as a whole and in fact many businesses are benefiting from the tourism busking brings.
“There is a successful Code of Conduct for buskers drawn up less than a year ago by the community itself and this should now be given a real chance rather than damage the goodwill that exists.
“We need to support culture and the arts and busking a key component.”
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