COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 11, 2026

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor E. Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive if he would consider licencing the installation of fairground carousels as permanent features at the three urban plazas outside his buildings : Parthalán Place, on the plaza outside the Clondalkin Civic Office and outside the forthcoming council building in Adamstown?

REPLY:

The relevant open spaces have and are being designed to act as multi-functional urban plazas to accommodate different uses in animating and activating these spaces.

Both Parthalán Place and the Clondalkin Civic Office plaza form part of the Council events programme, where different events will take place during the course of the year, helping to promote Tallaght and Clondalkin as destinations for events, including summer, Halloween and winter events. In this regard, both spaces need to be flexible enough to facilitate a variety of uses and it is therefore not intended to locate permanent installations in these spaces, including fairground carousels.

Such installations will however be considered as part of the hosting of any events taking place in these spaces throughout the course of the year. A similar approach will apply to any publicly owned or managed public open space in Adamstown.