COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

QUESTION NO. 15

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

"To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the Commemorations Committee and when this will meet? The Clondalkin Tidy Towns is awaiting a decision on a commemoration stone for the World War 1 Memorial and cannot progress the started project as this is a core element to the Memorial. Can we have a detailed report into next steps included in the report?"

REPLY:

Following the motion approved at the July 2020 Council Meeting to reconstitute the Commemorations Committee, a report was brought to the September 2020 OP & F meeting. Elected members agreed the nominees for the committee, which were approved at the Council meeting in October 2020.

The first meeting was held in February 2021 to consider a funding proposal to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, under the Community Strand of the Decade of Centenaries programme.

This fund was established to support the development of community-led commemorative initiatives in 2021, in remembrance of this complex and challenging period in our history. It will also allow for advance planning of commemorative initiatives for 2022.

The Mayor is convening a meeting of the Committee to review proposals submitted.