COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

"To ask the Chief Executive to outline possible funding options that may be available from within the Council and externally to fund the proposed 1916 commemorative garden proposed by the Clondalkin Tidy Towns committee for the land at Newlands Cross?"

REPLY:

Through the Commemorations Fund, South Dublin County Council wishes to support local communities who want to organise dignified and appropriate events to commemorate the 1916 Rising. The Commemorations Fund is a fund of €40,000 for allocation to community-based groups and organisations in the South Dublin County Area to organise events and projects to remember and commemorate this historic event. Funds will be made available for events taking place in 2016.

Grants from the fund will be awarded equally across the four South Dublin County Council Local Area Committees i.e. €10,000 per area: Clondalkin, Lucan, Tallaght and Templeogue/Terenure/Rathfarnham. 45 applications were recevied through this process.Grants of up to €1,000 are available. In a small number of cases South Dublin County Council may consider allocating higher amounts of funding.

South Dublin County Councils Commemorations Committee is currently finalising the evaluatation of each application and a report which will be presented to the full Council for noting at the November 2015 meeting.

In addition, there is a Garden of Remembrance Brochure produced by the Glor na Cásca Initiative which provides 7 different garden design templates with budget costings. This initiative aims to be a nationwide project in conjunction with community organisations like the Tidy Towns.