{"id":317210,"date":"2026-02-25T22:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317210\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:37:07","slug":"investigation-may-decide-if-limerick-tax-office-building-stays-or-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317210\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation may decide if Limerick tax office building stays or goes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COUNCIL bosses have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/231\/planning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commissioned<\/a> a series of studies into Sarsfield House at Arthur\u2019s Quay in a bid to establish whether it should be retained or knocked.<\/p>\n<p>Staff from the Revenue currently occupy the imposing building, but its long-term future is unclear, given they will move to new offices at nearby Opera Square in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Council is developing a masterplan for when this happens, and as of yet, it\u2019s unclear whether Sarsfield House will stay or go.<\/p>\n<p>At this month\u2019s metropolitan meeting, transport director Patricia Liddy confirmed the local authority had commissioned two assessments which will help inform its blueprint for the riverside area.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/business\/2022472\/former-tavern-beside-limerick-s-king-john-s-castle-may-get-new-lease-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Former tavern beside Limerick&#8217;s King John&#8217;s Castle may get new lease of life<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olive Downes, council\u2019s senior executive engineer added the studies &#8211; due to be completed next month &#8211; \u201cwill allow us to make an informed judgement and proposals in relation to what can happen with the building.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A number of councillors questioned how the authority is able to do this, given the building is owned by the Office of Public Works (OPW), and not council.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Downes referenced a consultation on the future of Arthur\u2019s Quay, saying a lot of talk was on the future of Sarsfield House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we didn\u2019t have the information on the building and whether it would be feasible to maintain it for residential, its costs and what the different options are. And that is the purpose of the study that is being commissioned now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social Democrats councillor Elisa O\u2019Donovan cautioned against raising people\u2019s hopes, and Cllr Joe Leddin, Labour, asked if the OPW\u2019s views had been sought.<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Ursula Gavan, Independent, called for the building to be retained, but Fine Gael councillor Peter Doyle said: \u201cI would love to see the end of Sarsfield House\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COUNCIL bosses have commissioned a series of studies into Sarsfield House at Arthur\u2019s Quay in a bid to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,1396,14563,15229],"class_list":["post-317210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city-and-county-council","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}