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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor J. Sinnott

To ask the Chief Executive to advise if Ballyroan Library can be used for future public consultations and workshops/events that are Council organised?

REPLY:

SDCC Libraries regularly collaborate with other Council departments in the delivery of Council-organised initiatives, including public consultations, workshops, and events. Ballyroan Library, along with other branch libraries, has previously been used successfully for such purposes and can continue to be considered for future Council-led engagements, subject to availability and operational requirements.

Libraries have worked in partnership with departments such as Climate Action and Digital Services in the delivery of workshops and events for initiatives including Climate Action Week and Cyber Security Awareness Month. In addition, libraries are frequently used as accessible venues for displaying public consultation materials, with this noted in associated public notices and advertisements. For example, documentation for consultations such as the Draft Climate Action Plan 2024–2029 has been made available for public viewing in libraries.

More recently, as part of the Part 8 Public Consultation for the Knocklyon to Ballyboden Active and Sustainable Travel Scheme, Ballyroan Library hosted a series of workshops on 5 March. These included four school workshops and one public workshop featuring a virtual reality model of a section of the proposed scheme along Ballyboden Way.