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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

To ask Chief Executive what budget currently exists towards biodiversity planting, what budget to date has been spent on projects in the area and if management could advise if they intend to seek an increase in future funding.

REPLY:

Funding has been provided in the 2022 Improvement Works Programme to install pollinator friendly bulb plantings at Ballyowen Park (€8,000), Collinstown Park (€8,000), Lucan Road outside St Edmundsbury (€10,000), Waterstown Park (€12,000) and Willsbrook Park (€5,000).  Planting will be carried out in Q4.

In 2020, three pollinator friendly bulb schemes were installed at the junction of the R148/Kennelsfort Road Upper, on the open space between Coldcut Road/Greenfort estate and on the R136/Thomas Omar way roundabout.  The schemes were carried out as part of a countywide initiative and it is not possible to provide a breakdown of budget for these individual schemes.

A wildflower area was developed in 2021 on the open space on either side of the N4 pedestrian bridge at Cherbury/Esker Lane. The cost of this was €3,000. 

It is expected that further schemes will be rolled out next year and funding for these will be considered during the 2023 budget process.