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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTON/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the Library Home Delivery Service (the number of deliveries) in the Lucan and Palmerstown-Fonthill Electoral Areas for the year 2020, broken out by month, and types of deliveries undertaken (home, nursing homes, day care centres etc)

REPLY:

"The Library Home Delivery Service was organised by the relevant branch libraries for January and February 2020, and due to Covid-19 restrictions there were no home deliveries for March, April and May 2020. The Mobile Library Service took over the running of home delivery service from June 2020 and there are currently twenty-one customers in the Lucan and Palmerstown-Fonthill LEA availing of the service, nineteen individuals and two individuals who reside in nursing homes.

Delivery dates Number of Deliveries
17-06-2020 9
08-07-2020 9
29-07-2020 10
19-08-2020 12
09-09-2020 13
30-09-2020 14
21-10-2020 15
11-11-2020 15
02-12-2020 17