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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, June 21, 2023

QUESTION NO.15

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the chief executive if there are financial supports available to community groups (e.g. Clondalkin Tidy Towns) for the purchase of tea, coffee and cakes for events they organise which allow social inclusion and active participation of asylum seekers?

REPLY:

We encourage groups to be partner funders and make a small contribution to event cost. The local authority general funds more tangible costs such as equipment, rent, insurance, entertainment hire costs and we ask groups to cover refreshment cost as their contribution. This is a more justifiable use of public finance.