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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

MOTION NO. 18

MOTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

"That this Committee writes to the Minister for Education Jan O'Sullivan and the Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly reqesting why neither Department have yet come back with anything other than a holding response since I wrote to them as Area Chair in June of this year in relation to the sports hall element of the sports and community building requirement in the Adamstown SDZ. And furthermore:

- Calls on both Ministers to meet to discuss this matter together given its strategic national importance in terms of facilitating housing provision at a time of severe shortage in the greater Dublin area, along with the promised facilities long denied to the residents of Adamstown and the much needed use of a sports hall for students of Adamstown Community College, who attend the school from all over Lucan;

- Urges both Ministers to look at creative solutions, already requested, to temporarily fund the construction of the sports hall element from central resources, this loan being retrieved by the provision of land, property or a financial repayment following the completion of the sale of all homes in the current phase of the plan (from the relevant developer, receiver, asset management agency or bank that holds control of the lands at the time);

- Again calls on the Minister for Education in particular to urgently meet, as requested with the Adamstown Sports and Community Hall Working Group as well as the Parents Association of the school, to share information and clarify the steps required given the pivotal strategic nature of this particular sports hall, unlike other sports halls in schools across the country, even if this involves a side meeting at the next official public engagement she attends in the Lucan area;

- And given the delay in providing any meaningful response to the elected members, calls on the Ministers to reply directly with a concrete answer in the same period as it takes to provide a response to a parliamentary question in the Dáil, so that this Committee can be appraised of the situation in time for its next monthly meeting."

REPORT:

If the Motion is Agreed, the contents will be forwarded to the Minister for Education Ms. Jan O'Sullivan and the Minister for the Environment Mr. Alan Kelly and when a reply is receive the Members will be notified.