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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 11, 2021

QUESTION NO. 24

QUESTION: Councillor S. O'Hara

To ask the Chief Executive to explain the increase in the requirement for public insurance indemnity from €2.5 to €6.5m, for use of certain Council facilities/community centres?

REPLY:

Community centres in the County are managed by independent voluntary boards of management (as Companies Limited by Guarantee) under management licences issued by the Council.  Public liability insurance of €6.5 million is a standard, consistent and long-standing requirement for all boards of management in such management licences and there have been no recent amendments to this requirement.

The insurance requirements for user groups using individual centres are managed by the relevant board of management but the maximmum possible, appropriate public liability cover would always be recommended by the Council.