Headed Items
CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council 10th February 2014
(circulated herewith)
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Rathfarnham Area Committee - 11th February 2014
- Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community, Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
b) Clondalkin Area Committee - 19th February 2014
- Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
(circulated herewith)
c) Joint Tallaght Area Committee (1) & Tallaght Area Committee (2) - 24th February 2014
- Dealing with Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Environment (1 report - Cleansing), Parks, Planning & Development, Roads & Water Services, Corporate Services & Libraries
(circulated herewith)
d) Lucan Area Committee - 25th February 2014
- Dealing with Planning & Development, Corporate Services & Libraries, Community, Housing, Parks, Environment, Roads & Water Services
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE COMMITTEE
(H3 no reports)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
a) Economic Development (incl. Planning & Development) Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting 5th February 2014
(ii) Minutes of Meeting 6th November 2013
b) Arts, Culture, Gaeilge, Education & Libraries Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting 11th February 2014
(ii) Minutes of Meeting 12th November 2013
c) Sports, Recreation, Community & Parks Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting 19th February 2014
(ii) Minutes of Meeting 13th November 2013
d) Transportation Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting 20th February 2014
(ii) Minutes of Meeting 21st November 2013
e) Housing & Social Development Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting 24th February 2014
(ii) Minutes of Meeting 25th November 2013
(all circulated herewith)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(H5 no reports)
Questions
To ask the Manager to direct me to a source or provide me with the following statistics:
Population of the County and the Wards - and the electorate of the County.
To ask the Manager to seek to put in place a system with the National Roads Authority for the timely response to representations from elected members of this Council in relation to the maintenance of national primary roads in this County, including on matters of grass-cutting, litter cleansing and graffiti removal?
To ask the Manager for a report on the plans contained within the NTA Draft Cycle Network Plan for the Greater Dublin Area relevant to South Dublin County, including (i) existing routes, (ii) designed routes and (iii) future routes?
To ask the Manager to publish the Section 142 Register for 2013 as soon as possible on the Council website, and to again consider a more user-friendly presentation of all Councillor expenses and remuneration on the website?
To ask the Manager for a breakdown of litter fines, prosecutions, notices and associated statistics for 2013 and so far in 2014; to ask the Manager to commit to strict enforcement of laws and bye-laws against illegal dumping and littering, and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to report on the status of all sites included on the Derelict Sites Register within South Dublin County over the past 12 months, including details as to the ownership, the date entered, the role of the Council in each case, details of any levies paid, details of any impending or previously-taken court cases (legal issues on information provision notwithstanding), details of any work carried out or proposed to be carried out on each site, and the Council's understanding as to future proposals for each site; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to provide in tabular form: I. The number of housing allocations excluding transfers in 2013 II. The number of allocations there were in 2013 there were to people/households on the homeless priority list. III. The number of allocations to each household size from the housing list and the number of allocations to each household size from the homeless priority list in 2013. IV. The number of allocations to household who had been on the homeless list for less than 6months, 6months to 1year, 1-3years, 3-6years, 7years-10years and 11years+, and the same information for allocations excluding transfers from the housing list in 2013 V. The number of allocations to households from the homeless where the head of household was in the 18-25years age rage, 26-35 age range, 36-45 age range, 46-55 age range, 56-64 age range and 65+ age range, and the same information for allocations excluding transfers from the housing list in 2013. VI. Of the allocation from the homeless list how many were to local authority stock, how many to approved housing bodies and how many to RAS?
To ask the Manager to provide a report on the list of potential social housing presented to the Council by NAMA detailing; the total number of units proposed by NAMA; the locations of these units; the criteria used by the Council in determining the suitability of the units for social housing; the number of units deemed suitable for social housing; the location of these units; the progress to date in bringing these units into social use; the funding model being used with respect to these units; the housing associations involved with these units; the number of these units currently tenanted?
To ask the manager to provide a report detailing the number of lease agreements/long term lease agreements the Council has with sports clubs in the County and including the names of the clubs, the locations and acreage of the land in question; the cost to the clubs of these agreement; the facilities currently available at each location and the role played by the Council in acquiring the funding for these facilities?
To ask the Manager if he can advise Members on the expenditure by the Council on the refurbishment and repair of footpaths in South Dublin County in the three years 2011, 2012 and 2013?
To ask the Manager if he can advise Members on the finance allocated by the Council in 2014 to each of the Household Grants - Grants for Older Persons, Grants for Persons with a Disability and Mobility Grants, if application for these grants are assessed in the order in which completed documentation is received from applicants, and if Members will be advised if and when, the finance available under a particular scheme for the year is exhausted?
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DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
(H6 no reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES / SITES
b) Disposal of Fee Simple: 13 Castle Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
(circulated herewith)
c) Disposal of Fee Simple: 31 Castle Lawns, Tallaght, Dublin 24
(circulated herewith)
a) Proposed Disposal of Affordable Dwellings
(no reports)
d) Proposed Consent of Council to Assignment and Variation of Lease of a Site and to the Novation of a Building Licence at Cookstown Road, Fortunestown from Avorado Holdings Ltd. (In receivership) to Teal Properties Ltd.
(circulated herewith)
e) Proposed Disposal of Plot of Land to the Rear of 69 Castle Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24 to Mr. Jonathan Smith
(circulated herewith)
f) Proposed Disposal of Plot of Land to the Rear of 70 Castle Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24 to Mr. Declan Broderick and Mrs. Natasha Broderick
(circulated herewith)
g) Proposed Disposal of Plot of Land Adjacent to 108 St. Maelruan's Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24 to Ms Louise Lawlor
(circulated herewith)
h) Proposed Disposal of ESB Sub Station Site at Neilstown Centre, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
(circulated herewith)
i) Transfer of Lands to Mr. Richard Harrison, 657 Whitechurch Cottages, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16
(circulated herewith)
REPORT ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION UNDER PART 8 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT) REGULATIONS 2001 - 2012 FOR PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF AN INFILL SOCIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AT MACUILLIAM ESTATE, FORTUNESTOWN LANE, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24 - 28 UNITS
(circulated herewith)
REPORT ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION UNDER PART 8 OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT) REGULATIONS 2001 - 2012 FOR PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF AN INFILL SOCIAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT AT MAYFIELD PARK, MAYFIELD PARK, CLONDALKIN, DUBLIN 22 - 18 UNITS
(circulated herewith)
PART 8 REPORT - PROPOSED TALLAGHT TO TEMPLEOGUE CYCLE TRACK SCHEME PHASE 1 - REPORT ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION
(circulated herewith)
PART 8 REPORT - PROPOSED N81 (FORTUNESTOWN TO N82) CYCLE TRACK SCHEME - REPORT ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION
(circulated herewith)
PROPOSED EXTINGUISHMENT OF THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY OVER LANEWAY BETWEEN 56/58 HEATHERVIEW DRIVE AND 51/53 HEATHERVIEW CLOSE, AYLESBURY, DUBLIN 24. MAP REF: RE 9812
(circulated herewith)
AUDIT COMMITTEE 2013 ANNUAL REPORT
(circulated herewith)
FILLING OF VACANCY ON BOARD OF RUA RED
(circulated herewith)
APPLICATION FOR A COMMUNITY ACTIVITY / EVENT
(circulated herewith)
REPORT ON LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE (LCDC)
(circulated herewith)
TO AGREE SHOP FRONT GRANT SCHEME 2014
(circulated herewith)
Correspondence
Letter, dated 23/01/14, from Edenderry Town Council regarding their motion passed in relation to a Student Service Charge in Apprentices Training in Institutes of Technology
Letter, dated 07/02/14, from Limerick City & County Council regarding their motion passed in relation to Top-ups and Bonuses
Letter, dated 03/03/14, from Clones Town Council regarding their motion passed in relation to Motor Tax Payments
Motions
Mayors Business
That this Council, in the interests of animal welfare, will not grant licences or other permissions to circuses featuring wild animals or wild animal species.
Mayors Business
That this Council will seek to enact a system whereby residential waste collections will be permitted only on one set day per week on an area-by-area basis, regardless of the operator.
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, IT 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 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 welcomes the move towards the creation of natural play areas and the budget allocated for play grounds and play areas across the County and asks the Manager for a report on projected timelines, budgets and proposals.
That this Council liaise with relevant anti-racism networks to develop best practice and policies which sends out a strong unequivocal message there is no acceptable level of racism.
That this Council will not make use of the Gateway scheme. Gateway is a work-for-benefits scheme also known as Workfare. Participation on Gateway is not voluntary; it entails 22 months of hard labour for a very small social welfare top-up of €20 that can be all but eroded by tax. It will not enhance the employability of participants as there is no quality training involved and there is a recruitment embargo in place on local authorities. Gateway punishes the unemployed for being unemployed and copper fastens the under-staffing of essential local services
The Lucan Area Committee passed a motion at its Monthly meeting in December 2013 requesting that the 7.5 tonne restriction on Kennelsfort Road be adjusted to 3.5 tonne to bring it into line with Ballyfermot Road, which is in the City Council area, and in accordance with procedures this recommendation is now before this Council for approval.
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.
That the Manager agrees to set up a mutual transfer database within the county where tenants can state where they would like to be moved which could then be matched with a tenant who is also willing to move
That this Council requests the Manager to present a report, for discussion, on the measures being taken to address the serious problem of 'We buy cars for cash' signs and stickers on road signs throughout our County, and to include in this report an update on: - details of engagement with an Gardaí Siochana on this matter; - the number of signs/stickers removed by the Council; - the number of litter fines issues by this Council; - the number of any other prosecution taken; and - what action the Council can or may take where tenants of this Council are found to responsible for erecting these signs and stickers.
That this Council calls on the Minister to introduce as a matter of priority Mandatory Oxygen Saturation screening with the use of Pulse Oximeters in every Maternity Hospital in the State as part of the general postnatal assessment of babies. These Pulse Oximeters already exist in all Maternity Hospitals for use in difficult births. Only seven of the twenty Maternity Hospitals in this State use this system, consequently over half of babies born with a heart defect are discharged without a diagnosis and relevant care. This has resulted in death and lifelong health problems which could have been improved with early diagnosis with the use of this simple and quick test.