COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE
Monday, May 25, 2015
MOTION NO. 1
MOTION: Councillor D. Richardson
That this Council look at sites in the Tallaght area for start up businesses similar to Killinarden Enterprise Centre. If we are serious about attracting new business to the area we must look at providing smaller units for new business to start up in the Tallaght area. As a Council who depends so much on rates from our businesses we must help new business start and develop in our county.
REPORT:
The Council through its own efforts or in co-operation with other Agencies has constructed local enterprise centres at Neilstown and Bawnogue in Clondalkin and at Brookfield and Killinarden in Tallaght.
The Centres aim to provide low cost start-up units with the necessary management supports, catering for a broad spectrum of services and trades. It is anticipated that as skill levels, business acumen and workforce increase in the individual businesses, the successful entrepreneurs will move on, thereby broadening the scope of start up aid and creating new business opportunities for local people.
The Council also provided a former community premises at Bolbrook to Partas for development as an Enterprise Centre and also disposed of a site at St Dominic's Road for the provision of enterprise units by a private Company.
As part of the Councils’ ongoing commitment to support enterprise and employment a full analysis of enterprise will be carried out to maximise new start-ups within the existing facilities. Following this analysis further provision may be considered.
As the members will be aware, with respect to the additional funding from the Business Support Grant, as agreed, they will be used to target industrial vacancy/underutilisation and obsolescence and to promote innovation and enterprise, on a percentage breakdown of -
- 60%- infrastructural upgrading works to be of a capital nature.
- 30%- innovation, start-up advice and supports including potential incubation space
- 10%- targeted training, to be identified by targeted surveys and delivered through LEO
In pursuance of this initiative the Council would be supportive of proposals from the private sector for the provision of start-up or incubation space.