COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, July 14, 2025
QUESTION NO. 2
QUESTION: Councillor C. Brady
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed report of the current casual trading landscape in South Dublin County over the past 5 years.
REPLY:
The Designated Trading Areas and appropriate fees are set out here and publicly available in the First Schedule of The South Dublin County Council Casual Trading Byelaws 2016 made by resolution at the meeting of South Dublin County Council held on 20th June 2016.
There are a total of 16 Casual Trading locations for annual licences in the SDCC administrative area of which 10 are currently licensed for 2025. This excludes seasonal and one-day trading licenses for event purposes.
The Casual Trading locations without a current licence are as follows:
Location |
Goods to be Traded |
Esker Cemetery |
Flowers |
Bohernabreena Cemetery |
Flowers |
Newcastle Cemetery |
Flowers |
Tymon Park – Limekiln entrance |
Ice Cream / Confectionary |
Tymon Park – Wellington entrance |
Tea/Coffee/Confectionary |
Fettercairn Community Centre |
General |
As per SDCC’s current Casual Trading allocation policy, preferential consideration is given to existing holders to renew existing licences.
The number of applications granted over the past 5 years:
Year |
Number of Applications Granted |
2025 |
10 |
2024 |
11 |
2023 |
11 |
2022 |
9 |
2021 |
8 |
The Enforcement and Licensing section have initiated a review of the South Dublin County Council Casual Trading Byelaws 2016 made under the Casual Trading Act, 1995 (the Act). The elected members have been given an initial opportunity to submit their comments for this initial review process, an informal briefing is also being arranged to be held before the end of July.
A draft revision of the Casual Trading Byelaws will be brought to the Environment, Public Realm, and Climate Change SPC in September. A public consultation process will then take place and the amended draft byelaws will be brought back to the November SPC for further review, before going to full council for approval.