COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Thursday, June 23, 2016

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

"To ask the Chief Executive if the final information and feasibility requirements for the supplementary €3.8 national funding for Lucan Swimming Pool has been signed off so that this can be progressed and merged with the Council's larger €6.2+ million contribution to allow the project to commence and be completed (as previously indicated to this Councillor in April) by the projected date of Oct/Nov 2018, if not sooner?"

REPLY:

Work is continuing on a number of fronts to advance the Lucan Swimming Pool project within the available resources and as part of an overall plan to deliver a large number of key infrastructural projects.

In this regard the procurement route for appointment of the Design Team has been approved. Work is progressing on the finalisation of the tender documentation for the Design Team for the pool and it is planned that these invitations will be published in the near future. In order to expedite the procurement of the design team they are being drawn from an existing framework and in this way it is anticipated that the Council will be in a position to seek approval for their appointment next month.

When the Design Team has been appointed the first task they will be assigned will be to carry out a full cost benefit analysis on the different configurations with a view to finalising the approach to be taken by the third quarter of this year. As soon as this work has been satisfactorily completed details will be presented including sketch proposals to this Area Committee in the last quarter of this year. 

The Council is also maintaining contact with the Department of Sport to ensure that they are fully up to date with the Council's planning and delivery process.