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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/FONTHILL AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

QUESTION NO. 16

QUESTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the utilisation and financial performance, in tabular form, of the community centres in the Lucan and Palmerstown-Fonthill electoral areas.

REPLY:

Community centres in the County are managed by independent local voluntary management companies and are legal companies in their own right. They are independent of the Council and are established as companies limited by guarantee and must comply with company law, make annual returns to the Company Registration Office and maintain audited accounts. The Community Department does not maintain a record of the financial performance each company managing a community centre in the county.

Oversight of  community centres is  by way of a signed management licence from the Council. This requires the company to provide services to meet the needs of the local community in a sustainable financial model.