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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

QUESTION NO.6

QUESTION: Councillor E. Murphy

Can the Chief Executive please outline when he envisages that plans for a library for the Firhouse / Knocklyon area will be included in the Capital Programme as provided for in the current County Development Plan?

REPLY:

Significant progress has been made towards the delivery of the objectives of Policy COS10; construction will soon commence on Citywest Library and pre-planning is underway for Adamstown Library. Improving our existing spaces, a key area of focus of "Our Library, Our Future" has seen the introduction of My Open Library in Lucan, and progress towards the refurbishment of Clondalkin with the Part 8 proposal adopted by Council in February. Improvements are underway in Tallaght and Ballyroan also, with work underway to make the latter our second My Open Library.

In the case of Firhouse/Ballycullen, work has been undertaken by the Libraries and Planning Departments to identify suitable sites for the development of a library. The next stage will be to carry out a feasibility study on the sites identified, in order to short-list and make a final selection. Although work has commenced on identifying a suitable site, the development of the library will only appear in the capital programme when a final site has been selected and a Part 8 Proposal is drafted. At that stage it will be possible to determine when expenditure on the project will commence and estimate a timeline for its delivery.