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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 14, 2025

QUESTION NO. 39

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive would he consider a more scaled back community endeavour awards much more like the mayor awards and give a breakdown for the cost of the last community endeavour awards ?

REPLY:

The Community Endeavour Awards ran annually from 2015 to 2019 and were reintroduced in 2024 after the covid pandemic, with the plan to run every two years. The cost of running the event in 2024 was €45,000. 

Community Heroes / Mayor's Awards were held in 2023 and 2025 as initiatives of the Mayors in those years, Cllr Emma Murphy and Cllr Baby Pereppadan respectively. Both Awards nights were held in the Concourse at County Hall which is serving as an increasingly popular event space for events of this type and space. The cost of the event in 2025 was €13,000. 

Both initiatives celebrate the wealth of community and volunteer work across the county improving lives and local communities. The formation of the new Community Directorate brings together Corporate Services, Libraries and Community and is an opportunity to review and improve such initiatives. The executive will engage with the Mayor, Elected Members and the Social, Community and Equality SPC in the future development of these Awards.