Headed Items
CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
a) Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council 13th January 2014
b) Minutes of Special Meeting of South Dublin County Council held on 28th January 2014 to discuss Ballycullen LAP
(all circulated herewith)
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Rathfarnham Area Committee 14th January 2014
- Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community, Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
(no report)
b) Clondalkin Area Committee 15th January 2014
-Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community, Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
(no report)
c) Joint Tallaght Area Committee (1) & Tallaght Area Committee (2) 27th January 2014
- Dealing with Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Environment, Parks, Planning & Development, Roads & Water Services, Corporate Services & Libraries
(circulated herewith)
d) Lucan Area Committee 28th January 2014
- Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
(circulated herewith)
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE COMMITTEE
a) Draft Calendar of Meeting Dates
b) Report on Conferences / Seminars
(all circulated herewith)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
(i) Report of Environment SPC Meeting of 3rd Feb. 2014
(ii) Minutes of Environment SPC Meeting of 2nd Dec. 2013
(all circulated herewith)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(H5 no reports)
Questions
As there is no budget for replanting of removed trees can the Manager advise as to whether residents can organise this themselves (with suitable replacements) if so desired, and provide a list of trees deemed appropriate for planting?
To ask the Manager to provide a completion date for removal of stumps from trees taken down?
To ask the Manager to provide a report detailing how many litter fines were issued in 2013, how many were paid and what the monetary value was to this Council?
To ask the Manager to ensure that any eligible voter that has been housed or re-housed through our scheme of letting priorities over the past three years is on the electoral register in an effort to ensure as many people as possible have the capacity to utilize their franchise?
To ask the Manager to produce an information/educational item to be placed on sdcc.ie informing 'foreign nationals' of their voting rights in the upcoming local and European elections and also to inform them how to check the register and how to exercise their franchise?
To ask the Manager to outline the amount of monies spent by this Council on consultancy services in 2011, 2012 and 2013 and to provide a break down of the areas in which consultancy services were employed - length and purpose of contract/terms of employment?
To ask the Manager if it is planned to introduce weekend emptying of litter bins on our villages?
To ask the Manager to seek details on the consultation process being proposed by the National Roads Authority with elected members of this Council on the planned N4/N7 corridor study?
To ask the Manager for a detailed update on the ongoing studies of potential hydro-electric schemes in the County?
To ask the Manager how many social housing units have been built or procured by the Council, year-on-year, for as far back as records are available, and to make a statement on plans for social housing building and procurement for 2014 and 2015?
To ask the Manager to provide a list of sites licenced to store, process or otherwise deal with waste in the County; to give details of the particular licences applied to each site; to provide a breakdown of the role of the Council, the EPA and other agencies in the licencing, planning and operation of these sites; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to state the approach of the Council to dealing with issues related to climate change, across the areas of planning, drainage, environmental services and other related fields; to ask for details of the climate change element of the new directorate; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to clarify the position for both existing and future applicants to the four schemes which deal with housing adaptation supports, and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager what proportion of the Local Property Tax collected in SDCC has been allocated through the Local Government Fund or any other means to the Council this year; what is the status of the proposed distribution of the LPT for 2015; what is the status of the proposals to allow Councillors to vary the LPT in a particular local authority area; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to provide a report based on the proposals in the Local Government Bill as to changes to Councillor representation on all existing and new statutory bodies and other groups (e.g. Local Education and Training Boards, Drugs Task Forces, Local Community Development Companies, etc), and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to provide a detailed report on arrears with respect to households with South Dublin County Council funded House Purchase Loans, the report to include (a) The number of legal repossession proceedings initiated in each year since 1st Jan 2008 to date. (b) The number of repossession order obtained in each year since 1st Jan 2008 to date. (c) The number of repossessions obtained in each year since 1st of January 2008 to date. (d) The number of households currently in mortgage arrears of ninety days or more; the family composition of these households. (e) A breakdown of the accounts by length of time in arrears in excess of one month?
To ask the Manager if he can provide information on the amount of money paid in damages to persons who took legal action/or sued the Council seeking compensation for injuries from falls or other accidents on footpaths in the county, during the period 2009 to 2012?
To ask the Manager if he will provide the following information for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013: (i) The amount of development levy income due to the Council and (ii) the amount of development levy payments made to the Council, and if he can advise on the measures being implemented by the Council to recoup unpaid development levies?
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
a) Abbey Close, Loreto Terrace, Rathfarnham
b) Verschoyle Park (part of), Saggart Abbey
c) Rossberry Estate, Lucan
d) Hansted Estate, Lucan
(all circulated herewith)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES / SITES
(no reports)
REPORT ON PART 8 PUBLIC CONSULTATION FOR CYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN PATH SYSTEM AT ALPINE HEIGHTS AND ASHWOOD ESTATES, BAWNOGUE, CLONDALKIN
(circulated herewith)
REVIEW OF ADAMSTOWN SDZ (Deferred from January Council meeting)
(circulated herewith)
UPDATE ON LOCAL PLAY SPACE 5 YEAR PROGRAMME
(circulated herewith)
PROPOSED EXTINGUISHMENT OF THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY OVER PORTION OF LANEWAY TO THE REAR OF 69 AND 70 CASTLE PARK, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24
(circulated herewith)
REVIEW OF CONTROL OF HORSES BYE - LAWS
(circulated herewith)
BUILDING CONTROL REGULATION
(circulated herewith)
Correspondence
Departmental
Letter, dated 24/01/14, from Minister for Transport, Sports and Tourism enclosing details of the 2014 Grant Allocations to South Dublin County Council for the Maintenance and Improvement of Regional and Local Roads
Ministerial
Letter, dated 09/01/14, from Minister for Health in reply to SDCC's motion passed regarding Screening for Prostate Cancer (M3/0913)
Ministerial
Letter, dated 13/01/14, from Minister for Environment, Community & Local Government in reply to SDCC's motion passed regarding the Privatisation of Irish Water (M9/1213)
Letter, dated 16/01/14, from South Tipperary County Council regarding their motion passed in relation to Fee introduced in October's Budget for Apprentices going to Institutes of Technology
Motions
Mayor's Business
That this Council notes its ongoing concern with the tens of millions of euro being paid by this Council into the Poolbeg Incinerator project with no tangible signs of progress; that the Council calls for a full report on the history of the process and the future plans; and that the Council writes to Dublin City Council, as the lead authority in the scheme, to express said concern.
That this Council agrees that social clauses and local employment contracts, such as those recently approved by the Department of Environment for Irish Water and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform for the DIT in Grangegorman should be utilised by South Dublin County Council for all appropriate projects. The Council agrees that the Manager will bring a report to the next available OP&F committee detailing the background to these social clauses and local employment charters and outlining options for their implementation by the Council in forthcoming projects including the proposed library for North Clondalkin.
That the Manager contacts all waste recycling facilities in South Dublin requesting any safety measures in place in the case of future fires and that the companies list out the health and safety risks with such fires in a recycling facility
That this Council in view of the ever increasing difficulty of Housing applicants acquiring private rented properties as a result of being rent supplement recipients, calls on the Minister to introduce guidelines, rules or legislation if required to ensure that such people are no longer discriminated against on the basis of their economic status
That this Council calls on the Manager to commence an examination of the feasibility of the use of private contractors to augment the Council's litter management, cleansing and bin emptying service, with a particular view to seek to increase the capacity, frequency and effectiveness of service provision in specific areas.
That this Council welcomes the publication of the Heads of Bill which will allow for the future establishment of Technological Universities and the mergers of Institutes of Technology, and notes that the DIT, ITT Tallaght and IT Blanchardstown have expressed interest in becoming a technological university. This Council notes Head 53 of the Heads of Bill dealing with membership of the Governing Bodies of the proposed Technological Universities, and is concerned that the Sections under this Head makes little or no explicit provision for representation on Governing Bodies, of persons representative of local authorities, eg SDCC, or the communities in which the Institute of Technology Tallaght is situated, in the case of the potential Dublin Technological University, and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education conveying this concern of the Council to him.
That this Council agrees to postpone any further payments towards the cost of the Poolbeg waste incinerator project pending a report from management to the next available OP&F committee on the implications for South Dublin County Council arising from the recent comments by the Dublin City Council Manager on that Council's future involvement in the project and the pending EU judgment on whether the project is in breach of state aid rules.
That the Manager outlines how the council are to increase the number of likes on the Facebook page
That this Council calls on the Manager to provide an updated report on the situation with vacant bank owned houses within the County and for the report to include outcomes of meetings that were due to take place with the various stakeholders in this regard
That this Council calls on the Manager to outline how this local authority intends to engage with the 'Gateway' work placement scheme
That this Council deplores the delay on the part of the Government to implement, as promised in the Programme for Government 2011, and repeated in A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland (July 2012), a scheme to provide low income households with financial assistance in paying for household waste collection, and requests the Manager to convey this sentiment to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, and ask the Minister to advise on a date on which the Government will put a support scheme in place.