Your County Council

South Dublin County Council headquarters are at County Hall, Tallaght. The Council is the political forum of South Dublin County Council, it is similar to Dáil Éireann at local level. The County Manager is the Chief Executive Officer of the Council and reports to its twenty-six elected representatives. These are our Councillors elected by the people of South Dublin County. The Councillors role is to approve the policies supporting the day to day running of ‘the Council’ in the same way that a Board of Directors acts for a private company. The Manager then implements these policies.

The twenty six Councillors of South Dublin County are representatives of political parties. Members of the public are also invited to attend these meetings and must sit in the Public Gallery. Usually the public attend council meetings to hear matters that affect them and their own area. The county has five electoral areas – Clondalkin, Lucan, Tallaght Central, Tallaght South and Rathfarnham/Terenure…