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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

MOTION NO. 16

MOTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To call on the Chief Executive to write to the Working Group on Balgaddy and ask them to provide a written report on their actions so far.

REPORT:

The inaugural meeting of the Working Group was held on the 31^st March 2022 and will meet on a quarterly basis. It was agreed that the Balgaddy Working Group was established to implement the recommendations outlined below in the Community Crime impact assessment undertaken in March 2021:

A locally based youth service, incorporating centre based and street outreach teams 

A regeneration programme including physical and social improvements
 
Closer interagency collaboration to ensure on the spot responses to community safety responses.  

A return to community events such as a summer sports programme as COVID restrictions lift

An integrated CCTV system similar to that in Cherry Orchard, Ballyfermot
 
Attention to increasing education supports for young people in school
 
Improvement of public lighting, especially at the park

A campaign to tackle littering and work to keep the area looking well

Membership of the group includes:

• Staff from the Estate Management and Community Development Teams from SDCC
• An Garda Siochana (Ronanstown)
• North Clondalkin Community Development Programme
• Co- Ordinator from Clondalkin Drugs Task Force
• Ronanstown Crosscare (awaiting nomination)
• Chair of Local Policing Forum
• DDETB (awaiting nomination)

Representatives from SOLAS attended the meeting on 19th July to discuss possible training initiatives through construction skill pathways such as Apprenticeship Programmes for young persons living in the area.

Pat Bennet has been appointed as an independent Chairperson, he is currently the chairperson of the Clondalkin Drugs Task Force and has previously sat on boards with TUSLA, the HSE and Family Resource Centres. The next meeting of the working group is scheduled for November 2022.