Reply - Q1 - 1916 Rose's Project Ballyboden Tidy Towns

COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

South Dublin County Council Crest

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

QUESTION NO.1

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

"To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the Councils involvement in the 1916 Rose's Project from Ballyboden Tidy Towns. What progress has been made, what are the planting locations?"

REPLY:

"The 2016 Commemorations Fund for Communities provided €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 celebration of Ireland's past and present. Grants from the fund were made available to 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. Grants of up to €1,000 were available for individual projects. In a small number of cases, South Dublin County Council could consider the allocation of higher amounts of funding. All grants would be paid on receipt of a Post Event Report Form that provided the following:

Evidence that the event/project had taken place
Receipts for all items and the full costs
A report on the event/project

The South Dublin County Council Commemorations Committee awarded the Palmer Park/Pearse Brothers Park Residents' Association a €800 grant for the 'Remembering our Neighbours' tree planting initiative and awarded the Glendoher and District Residents' Association a €1,000 grant for the 'Irish "Hope Rose" Horticultural Project', which looked at planting a number of 1916 commemorative red rose bushes along a marching route to the General Post Office.

In 2017, a meeting was held between residents and public realm staff regarding the identification of planting locations, three initial pilot areas were identified for planting which included two locations at Pearse Brothers Estate and one location at Taylor’s Court. These areas were sprayed by the Council’s public realm section twice in 2017 in preparation for planting by the residents. The residents' associations were then to engage a landscape contractor to insert edging around the flowerbeds in advance of planting. The Council is continuing to liaise with the residents' associations regarding the completion of this project and we are awaiting confirmation of a start date for these works from them."