COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

MOTION NO.  8

MOTION: Councillor E. Higgins

That this committee gets an update on the 300k Have Your Say initiative

REPORT:

Following the launch event of €300k Have Your Say in The Round Tower - Clondalkin on March 8th, 2018, a number of workshops were held throughout the Clondalkin Electoral Area. These took place in Neilstown Community Centre, the Green Isle Hotel, Peamount Football Club and Rathcoole Community Centre from March 13th to the 22nd and were attended by approximately 120 people.

The communications around the initiative during this period focused first on promoting the workshops and then on obtaining idea submissions from the public through the €300k Have Your Say website. This was done through social media, local press and over 18,000 direct mailouts to households and local businesses in the area. Social media promotion included paid advertising through Facebook and Instagram that targeted people living in the Clondalkin Electoral Area over the age of 13 (the minimum age allowed on those platforms). Approximately 28,000 people were cumulatively reached across three separate paid adverts. This was in addition to standard social media posts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn reaching a total of approximately 84,000 people.

Over 150 community groups, schools, places of worship, sports clubs and groups representing minorities, were also directly contacted around the process by the Council's Communications Unit. Posters and flyers were also made available to the public through the Clondalkin library, the Council's mobile libraries and Civic Office. The Council would like to thank the elected members for their support in promoting the initiative through their own channels as well.

The deadline for submissions passed on April 9th with the Council receiving 230 entries. The Council have collated all submissions and are currently reviewing against the agreed assessment criteria for project submissions. Suitable projects will then be assessed and costed by Council departments before the upcoming €300k Have Your Say steering group meeting on May 2nd. A shortlist will be produced by the steering committee that will then be presented at the full Council meeting on May 14th for approval before it proceeds to the public voting stage.