Limerick CCTV monitoring centre could close just days before Christmas

REGARDLESS of funding options, employees at the CCTV monitoring centre in Moyross have been told that they will finish two days before Christmas.

There has been ongoing uncertainty about the future funding for the centre with no funding secured for 2027.

The centre monitors more than 350 CCTV cameras from all around Limerick city and county.

The monitoring service costs €800,000 a year to run, but no funding has been secured from the Department of Justice for next year.

The operations for 2026 were boosted with funding from Mayor John Moran, who has now written to the Government to clarify whether or not funding for next year has been allocated.

A source who did not wish to be named told Limerick Live that employees have been informed that they will be made redundant if funding is not secured by the end of this month and that December 23 will be the final day of operations.

Limerick Live understands that this decision will not change and that the premises has been earmarked by management for another purpose and that this will remain unchanged regardless of decisions about funding.

This would mean that all cameras would be turned off just days before Christmas.

The centre employs approximately 15 staff and Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan has called on the Tánaiste Simon Harris to intervene.

He previously said: “The CCTV operations centre is a vital service, established in the aftermath of the Limerick feud in the early 2000s - a dark period none of us want to ever see repeated. These 300-plus cameras cover not just our regeneration areas, but the whole of Limerick.

“We simply cannot afford to lose this service, a service that gardaí see as vital in their crime prevention efforts.

“Allowing 300-plus cameras to go dark on this Government’s watch would be a serious failure by Government for public safety in Limerick.”