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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 09, 2011

QUESTION NO 13.

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

To ask the Manager to consider the inclusion of vouchers for the Council's for-pay facilities, such as Leisure Centres or the Civic Amenity, as part of the next "South Dublin County Today" newsletter, in order to encourage the greater use of Council services by citizens unfamiliar with them; and to ask the Manager to make a statement on the proposal?

REPLY:

South County Dublin Leisure Services Limited was set up in 2006 by South Dublin County Council to manage various Council owned leisure facilities on a sustainable and cost neutral basis and currently has responsibility for the management of Tallaght Leisure Centre, Clondalkin Sports and Leisure Centre and Lucan Sports and Leisure Centre.

South County Dublin Leisure Services Limited is currently involved in a targeted initiative  Link2BActive  which is an initiative from South Dublin County Sports Partnership (SDCSP), Dodder Valley Partnership (formerly Tallaght Partnership) and CPLN Area Partnership (formerly Clondalkin Partnership) that promotes increased participation in local sporting facilities for men and women out of work or on social welfare payments at discounted rates.

SCDSL Ltd has also agreed in principle to be part of the rewards offering under the Council’s Pilot Social Credit System which will cover all facilities and the suggestion will be considered in conjunction with this scheme. There will be a presentation to the members of the Sports, Recreation, Community and Parks SPC at its May meeting on the proposed Social Credits Scheme.

Both the Council's Civic Amenity at Ballymount and the other privately operated civic amenity in the County arranged for free access days last year to encourage the diversion of material from bonfires.  However, it is not currently intended to offer widespread free access vouchers to the Council's Civic Amenity such as proposed in the question.