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CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 13th April 2015.
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Rathfarnham/Templeogue-Terenure Area Committee - 14th April 2015
- Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community (1 report -Community Grants) , Housing, Transportation, Planning, Libraries & Arts, Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
b) Clondalkin Area Committee - 15th April 2015
- Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community (1report - Community Grants), Housing, Transportation, Planning, Libraries & Arts, Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
c) Tallaght Area Committee - 27th April 2015
- Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community (1 report - Community Grants) , Housing, Transportation, Planning, Libraries & Arts, Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
d) Lucan Area Committee - 28th April 2015
- Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Transportation, Planning, Libraries & Arts, Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE COMMITTEE
(H3 no report)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
Special meeting of the Land Use Planning & Transportation SPC - April 23rd 2015
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(H5 no report )
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive, to write to the Dublin Central Placement Service to ask if hostels that are being used to accommodate the homeless are regurarly being inspected? In addition to ask how many of them have health and safety statements?
To ask the Chief Executive, on average how many individuals present to the homeless unit in SDCC? In addition, on average, how many can't be accommodated and are asked instead to contact the homeless free phone number?
To ask the Chief Executive, what housing supports if any, can be given to victims of domestic violence that have had to flee their home when they are already tenants of SDCC?
To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed update on the Feasibility Study to investigate the potential for small-scale hydro generated power?
To ask the Chief Executive if there are plans to expand the School Warden service in the County?
To ask the Chief Executive how many Sports facilities in the County are like the All Weather Pitches on Fortunestown Way, which are complete and unopened and are not being made available to the Public. Also what are the delays in opening these facilities and when can we expect them to be opened?
To ask the Chief Executive to quantify the amount of Development Levies taken in by the County Council from the 1st of January 2013 to date?
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm the amount of development levies collected by this Local Authority, specifically for the provision of water services since the 1st of January 2012?
To ask the Chief Executive if any mortgage has been granted by this Local Authority to assist in the purchase of homes in the County since the 1st January 2012 and if so to quantify the number of mortgages granted?
To ask the Chief Executive to quantify the number of water leaks dealt with by this Local Authority in the past 12 months and the number of times any such leak reoccurred having been attended to by the Local Authority.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on homelessness in the county detailing; the number of households presenting as homeless each month since the start of 2015; the accumulative total number of households listed as homeless at the end of each month since the start of the year; the accumulative total number of households from the SDCC housing list in emergency accommodation at the end of each month since the start of the year; the accumulative total number of households from the SDCC list on the waiting list for emergency accommodation at the end of each month since the start of the year; and for each of these categories to be broken down by single personal households and households with children and the total number of children for each category?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report detailing the total number of housing allocations made per month since the start of the year broken down by list (CBL, priority transfer, transfer and homeless priority) and by type (council, AHB, RAS, HAP, leasing)?
To ask the Chief Executive to details actions he is taking to improve the image of our industrial estates throughout the county noting the job creation potential in these estates and appreciating that some of the estates need improvement in that regard?
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm proposals he has to improve safety in all council parks throughout the county appreciating the need to ensure that those accessing our parks feel safe and comfortable at all times?
To ask the Chief Executive what early preparations are being made by his staff to tackle the annual challenge in respect of Open Spaces throughout the County during bonfire season and will he confirm if he is considering supporting organised community bonfires to save damages to our Open Spaces?
To ask the Chief Executive to present a further report detailing initiatives he is taking and indeed considering to deal with Homelessness in our County?
To ask the Chief Executive if he will task the Councils communication department to consider what could be done to protect the title of South Dublin noting that this term is regularly used in the media to describe many other areas outside our County, and particularly in Dunlaoire and will he agree that it is time, 21 years after the creation of the South Dublin administrative area, that the public at large be clear about South Dublin?
To ask the Chief Executive how many groups have applied for the Tidy Towns funding and how much has been awarded to each group. Can you give a breakdown of how the funding was allocated by electoral area please?
To ask the Chief Executive to explain when individual residents became responsible for their own access joints and other water pipes outside their home?
To ask the Chief Executive why SDCC paints infill housing in pastel colours?
To ask the Chief Executive how many staff members are on the tree pruning crew and how many trees are pruned within an average week?
To ask the Chief Executive how many people throughout the County have purchased their homes through the Shared Ownership scheme over the past 15 years before the system changed?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on what Accommodation was available by week from 6th March to May on choice based lettings?
To ask the Chief Executive to look at and issue a report on a tourism map for all areas of SDCC that is accessible and easy to understand that could highlight the best of what SDCC has to offer. Such a map could also detail well known people from each area?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on how many Homeless families are in hotels and B and Bs in SDCC and how long they have been in this accommodation ? also how many are accomodated in Dublin City Council area that are from SDCC? This Report should provide a breakdown of costs.
To ask the Chief Executive to look at the ''Tree of Hope'' which has been very successful in many areas to be rolled out across SDCC parks and Green areas in a planned and coordinated manner and to also look at SDCC launching a mental health awareness campaign in conjunction with this?
To ask the Chief Executive to use the SDCC website, SDCC Facebook page, Twitter, TV screens in SDCC civic offices, Press release and any other form of media to call for all citizens of SDCC to vote in the Referendums on May 22nd?
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DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
(H6 no reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES & SITES
H7 (a) - Proposed disposal of site at Tymon North Road, Tallght, Dublin 24 - adjacent St Aongus Scout Den
H-7(b) Proposed disposal of freehold interest in plot of land adjacent 8A Riverside Cottages, Templeogue, Dublin 6W
MONTHLY MANAGEMENT REPORT
EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS PLAN
PART 8s
Tallaght Village Improvement Works
ANNUAL SERVICE DELIVERY PLAN INFOGRAPHIC
SECTION 85 AGREEMENT
ANNUAL REPORT OF JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE
LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Correspondence
MINISTERIAL
Letter from the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, dated 31st March 2015, re national monument in Moore St.
MINISTERIAL
Letter from Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation dated 29th April 2015 re Dunnes Stores.
Letter from Environment, Community and Local Government dated 17th April 2015, re Targets for delivery under the Social Housing Strategy 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Letter re Notice of Motion Passed by Ballina Municipal District re restoration of Town Councils
Motions
This Council expresses its deep disappointment at the social housing targets given to South Dublin County Council by the Minister for the Environment. We are particularly concerned that less than 10% of the proposed housing provision over the next three years will be Council housing. We do not believe that such a heavy reliance on subsidised private rented accommodation will meet the needs of individual families or our communities. We urgently call on the Minister to review these targets in favour of direct provision of social housing by South Dublin County Council.
That this Council proposes to the Minister for Environment, Communities & Local Government that a review be carried-out of the legislation governing commercial rates, to afford local authorities more flexibility in devising locally-appropriate rate regimes, including to:
- Firstly, adopt a more progressive system of commercial rates with a both a general low level of ARV and a higher level applying to that part of a property valuation in excess of a certain amount; thereby allowing local authorities to target rates reductions for small and medium businesses;
- Secondly, identify a limited number of priority ‘Main Street’ commercial areas where a special, time-limited lower level of commercial rates could be applied to incentivise retailing and commerce and regenerate such areas in tandem with an approved plan.
In the light of the ever-worsening graffiti problem in our county and nationwide, this council calls on the government to enact legislation which would restrict the sale of aerosol spray-paint cans to people over twenty one years of age.
That this Council calls on the Energy Regulator to review the taxes and levies set by them with a view to reducing the crippling energy costs for consumers in this County. Irish consumers have the fourth most expensive electricity in the EU and this is utterly unacceptable.
That this Council calls on the Minister to introduce the promised National Bin Charges Waiver Scheme as identified in the programme for Government without delay with a view to providing some relief to those Citizens the proposed scheme was purported to assist.
Considering that Ireland has one of the highest childcare costs in the OECD, this council calls on the Tánaiste Joan Burton to fulfill her commitment to deliver an affordable & accessible Scandinavian Model of Childcare, which will encourage and enable women to participate in education or return to the labour market.
This Council, concerned at the manner in which new charges, levies and taxes have been introduced in recent years, many of them by stealth and in addition to and on top of, already unfair charges, levies and taxes which have the cumulative effect of significantly undermining the quality of life of the average family, calls on An Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, if they are sincere in their declared policy of broadening the Tax Base, to reverse the current policy of punitive tax expansion under the guise of broadening the Tax Base, and initiate a root and branch overhaul of the Irish Taxation System that eliminates double taxation in all its forms and introduce instead an integrated system of Local and National Taxation that will be fair, equitable and sustainable and that is capable of providing realistic funding for Local Government based on the services and facilities best delivered at local level, that promotes solidarity at National level, that is linked, as all taxes should be, on ability to pay, that is progressive and transparent. That the Chief Executive Officer write to An Taoiseach and Ministers concerned informing them of the decision of this Council and that the other County Council be forwarded a copy.
That this elected body calls on all corporate entities in this county to adhere to their responsibility in upholding human rights and international law in their corporate governance. Furthermore if this motion is passed by the elected members where international law is seemed to be non adhered to we the elected body shall ask for clarification regarding ethical guidelines and corporate responsibility.
That this council condemns the use of Gateway, Job Bridge, and other similar government "job activation" schemes as they endanger council jobs.
Following my motion Reference 41531 (That this Council liaise with Dublin Bus to report on measures / plans are being made in relation to the provision of a bus route along the Outer Ring Road which would connect Lucan (village) to Tallaght (village) via Clondalkin (village) and vice versa, making full use of this infrastructure.) That this council requests an update from the Chief Executive and also asks that Dublin Bus are invited to discuss this proposal with the council.
That this council condemns the system known as Direct provision and calls for the Direct provision system to be scrapped and a new procedure based on a Human rights approach be put in place and that an apology is given to the people that have been subjected to this system.
That this Council sets as an objective a programme of self-sufficiency in energy generation, to match its planned improvements in energy efficiency by identifying sites for the production of renewable wind energy for Council use and in particular to emulate and improve upon efforts made by Tipperary County Council (http://tea.ie/projects/tipperary-county-council-solar-pv-2014/) in developing photovoltaic technologies on its buildings and as a result reducing its energy consumption by 171,000 kWh annually, or 11% across all installed buildings, for a co-grant funded investment of €326,850, with an estimated payback of just seven years.
That the Chief Executive ensure that all Part 8 projects, including all the documents relating to them, are cited in the weekly Planning Register to ensure as wide a public readership as possible
That this Council lead the way and implement calorie posting on all food served in the Council’s canteen. There is an obseity problem in Ireland, with reports that Ireland will soon to be the fastest growing obese Country after the United States. The Government has approved Heads of Bill for calorie counting on menus and I would ask that this Council provide leadership in volunteering to provide this information before being so obliged. It is accepted that there is a cost involved in providing calorie count on food, to this end the Food Safety Authoirity has developed an online calorie counting model known as MenuCal. I’m asking members to support my motion and in so doing that this Council lead the way in providing this information on a voluntry basis and in so doing, sending out a clear positive message within the County and to other local authorities.
That the County Development Plan mandates the Council to strike a retail balance in our villages and retail centres
That this Council writes to the Minister for Health seeking clarification as to why the H.S.E. is downgrading the ratio mix for the care of vulnerable patients from a 50:50 to a 40:60 basis. That we reiterate the questions posed by the INMO in this matter. On what evidence is a skill mix of 40:60 based on?
- What autonomy / authority does the person in charge (Director of Nursing) have in relation to staffing levels and skill mix?
- Why are the HSE proceeding with this overtly cost cutting exercise in one of the most vulnerable patient groups in the health service?
- What risk assessment was carried out in all areas prior to this instruction to cut staff in such numbers?
That this Council endorse the Homeless Support Service monetarily which is being provided by CARP (community addiction response project ) recognizing the hugely important assistance being provided to the South Dublin Homeless population.
That this elected body compels South Dublin County Council not to engage or cooperate in the means of handing over information of tenants personnel details to Irish Water.
That SDCC ask the Government and the relevant minister to ensure that
1) There are sufficient ASD unit places to meet demand as of September 2015,
2) That special education cuts in relation to resource hours are repealed, that a truly inclusive accessible education provided locally is planned for.
3) That all schools in the development plan going forward are to compelled to include ASD classes as part of the planning process,
3) That schools who are NOT planning any current extensions are retro-fitted with ASD Units to ensure sufficient places to meet demand locally.
4) That an ASD pre-school is built immediately in SDCC to provide local places for children with autism.
5) That legislation or similar mechanism is put in place to compel board of managements of schools to build and open ASD classes when approached by the DES and NCSE and when they themselves identify the need for same
That this Council, in the absence of current agreed protocols outside of normal planning practice, for the naming of areas of significance including but not restricted to, parks, buildings, plazas, streets and bridges agrees to invoke such a protocol incorporating a public consultation process for any such place or area of significance in the future.
That this County Council put proposals to the Minister for the Environment to further regulate the private residential property sector having particular regard to the current lack of certainty surrounding levels of rent and landlords ability to alter agreed rents, in an effort to encourage a more settled rental housing sector to the benefit of this Local Authority.
That this council carry out a review of the process used for the sale of small parcels of land to a local resident or business. This review should include creating a provision for the display of a sign, similar to that used in planning applications, to be erected by the applicant to allow local residents know of any application
"This motion calls on the Irish Government to:
• Protect Irish interests in the ongoing Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and the US.
• Take all measures to remove Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) from the agreement.
• Take all measures to ensure that the terms of the living agreement cannot breach Irish legislation.
• Initiate a public debate on the consequences of TTIP on Ireland.
• Take all measures to protect Irish agriculture in TTIP negotiations.
This Council also affirms that we will not support any trade agreement that includes Investor-State Dispute mechanisms.
This Council recognises with vigilance the construction of a Regulatory Co-operation Council through TTIP and affirms the position that this body’s authority and remit should allow only for recommendation. Implementation of recommendations should be administered by those elected by and accountable to the citizens of Europe.
This Council does not support any trade mechanism that allows Irish law to be superseded for corporate interest."
That this Council calls on the Government to prioritise the South Dublin County Council administrative area for job creation initiatives noting the particular need to deal with unemployment throughout the county including the major population areas of Clondalkin, Lucan, Greenhills, Rathfarnham and the county town of Tallaght.
That this council writes to the Minister ofTransport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe requesting that all previous National roads east of the M50 which were degraded are re-instated as national roads.