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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 11, 2008

QUESTION NO. 11

QUESTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

To ask the Manager if he can make a report on the Council's response to the proposal of the Dublin Mountain Initiative for the development of a public recreational park in the Dublin mountains? 

REPLY:

The Council are currently engaged in a project, with others, to devise a recreational management strategy for land currently in State ownership in the Dublin Mountains

The overall objective of this project is to develop an integrated outdoor recreation strategy that seeks to link all existing and potential outdoor recreation components including access routes, in particular, forests and other public or state owned land with existing recreational use or recreational potential in the Dublin Mountains area over the 10 year period to 2017.

A Steering Group, comprising representatives of South Dublin County Council, Coillte Teoranta (The Irish Forestry Board), Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, The National Parks and Wildlife Service and The Dublin Mountains Initiative was established to oversee the development of such a strategy.

The preparation of the plan is nearing completion, and will be brought to the attention of and circulated to the members as soon as practicable.   Provision has been made in the budget for 2008 for the Council to contribute to the initialisation and implementation of the strategy.