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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 23, 2021

MOTION NO. 19

MOTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

'That this Committee, recognising the need for additional resources for community policing/safety to allow these forums to expand to cover areas in Lucan, identified as having expanding communities that would benefit from such forums, agrees to support a provision for appropriate voluntary contributions in the Council's revenue budget to allow for enhanced community safety/policing forums in the area.'

REPORT:

Expansion of existing Community Safety/Local Policing Forums to cover additional areas would require additional resources to be agreed by the Elected Members during the budget 2022 process for this purpose. A provision could be made for a voluntary contribution to an external organisation to fund administration costs to extend an existing community safety/policing forum to cover areas of Lucan. Any such provision would be decided by the Elected Members in the context of competing priorities across the County at budget time and would require identification of a suitable funding stream or identifying existing expenditure to cease to resource this. The budget commitment would also have to be renewed annually in each subsequent budget to maintain any extended structures going forward and it would also be appropriate to agree the extended areas to be covered through the Joint Policing Committee.