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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

QUESTION NO.13

QUESTION: Councillor P. Gogarty

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the rollout of evening events in Libraries in Palmerstown, North Clondalkin and Lucan?

REPLY:

Lucan library and North Clondalkin Library are currently open 4 late evenings a week and offer a broad range of events and programming to our customers many of which take place in the evening time. While most of the evening events finish by closing time (8pm), staff do oblige and stay back late if an event runs to a later time. (Examples recently include Culture Night and The Night belongs to us which finished at 10pm) With the newly extended opening hours due to commence in Palmerstown library shortly, the library will continue to open late on  a Thursday evening. We envisage that a greater offering of outreach events will be offered to customers - some of which may be offered on Thursday evenings.