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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, June 22, 2015

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

"To ask the Chief Executive to present a full report on plans to provide the long promised Sports Pavilion in Dodder Valley Park, Old Bawn, detailing contacts he has had in respect of the issue and confirming the exact location in the Park and the schedule now being followed."

REPLY:

The Council's Pavilion Construction Pogramme which will be funded through the annual provision of €300,000 made in the Council’s Capital Programme 2015-2017, along with funding from the Department of Transport, Tourism, and Sport through the Sports Capital Programme was presented to the Council at the June 2015 Council Meeting. 

The construction of the pavilions will be carried out by a contractor to be procured through the Public Procurement Process. One of the positive outcomes of the construction of the TASC pavilion was the community area and which serves both the sports clubs but also the wider community.  Such a facility will also be considered in the proposed programme where the facility will be located in proximity to a residential area.  The exact number of dressing rooms in each location will be determined by consideration of the number of clubs that are allocated pitches currently and also the advice of the Sports Officers and the Sports Facilitator.

It is intended to provide a storage unit as part of the build.

The priority for delivery of the programme lists the Dodder Valley Park, Old Bawn as the first to be proposed for construction. This proposal has already been presented as a Part 8 proposal some years ago and has secured Sports Capital Funding. Arrangements are currently being made to progress this to tender stage.