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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 11, 2016

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Brien

To ask the Chief Executive if a number of sports clubs come together and apply for funding form the fund that was announced at last year’s budget for multi-use sports building. Will the council work with the clubs and lease or licence land to the clubs so they can apply for sports capital funding?

REPLY:

The Council continues to work with sporting organisations to meet the sporting / community needs of the County.  There is a growing number of smaller sports clubs in South Dublin County such as boxing and martial arts, who do not have the critical mass to develop and manage their own sports facilities in terms of both initial capital cost and ongoing management and maintenance costs year on year.  To address the needs of these clubs it was suggested that flexible spaces could be developed which these clubs could access and use on a shared basis without the need to build individual facilities which are costly to construct and sustain.  As a result the funding is not available to individual clubs to develop individual facilities.

A preliminary fund was included in this year’s budget for the design development of such shared facilities.  It will require a number of clubs to come together, possibly with an existing facility to examine the potential of new build/extensions to accommodate their needs.  Design development will be funded on this basis including Planning/Part 8 and budget costings.

No ‘grouping/consortia’ has yet been identified.

The Social and Community SPC is being kept informed of progress.