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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, May 25, 2015

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the Chief Executive if he will carry out an examination of all Industrial Estates in the Tallaght area to ensure that the image of the Estates is such that they are capable of attracting further investment and job creation initiatives."

REPLY:

A key issue emerging from the carrying out of the County Economic Profile is the need to focus funding to give effective support to enhance the physical environment of industrial estates within the County, this is particularly in the case of areas which are underutilised with higher rates of vacancy.

In pursuance of giving effective support to this outcome, a general survey has and will continue to be carried out to identify and support measures to improve industrial estates in Tallaght and other parts of the County so as to continue to attract and maintain investment and job creation. 

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, startup advice and supports including potential incubation space
•   10%- targeted training, to be identified by targeted surveys and delivered through LEO.

Through identifying and progressing particular improvements, such as in the Cookstown estate area, practical support will be given to improving industrial estates as areas for economic activity.