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CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
a) Minutes of Meeting Of South Dublin County Council 8th June 2015
b) Minutes of Annual Meeting 26th June 2015
c) Minutes of Development Plan Meeting 18th June 2015
d) Minutes of Development Plan Meeting 25th June 2015
e) Minutes of Development Plan Meeting 29th June 2015
a) Rathfarnham/Templeogue-Terenure Area Committee - 9th June 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 - 17th June 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.
c) Tallaght Area Committee - 22nd June 2015
-Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community (1 report - Community Grants), Housing, Transportation, Planning,
Libraries & Arts (1 report -Arts Grants), Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management.
d) Lucan Area Committee - 23rd June 2015
- Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Environment, Community, Housing, Transportation, Planning,
Libraries & Arts, Economic Development, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management.
Report of Lucan Area Committee meeting held on 23rd June 2015:
(i) Members recommended that legal advice be sought from the Law Agent and provided to members in relation to any potential adverse implications of making a Tree Preservation Order for this location against the recommendation of the executive.
(ii) H I (15) (Motion 16 was taken in conjunction with the HI) from Lucan ACM 23rd June 2015.
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A discussion ensued, and the members recommended that the motion be brought before the full Council. The motion was proposed by Cllr G O Connell and seconded by Cllr. P Gogarty and agreed by all Lucan ACM members present.
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE.
(H3 no reports)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
(H4 no reports)
REPORT OF JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE - 5TH JUNE 2015
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(no reports)
Questions
There was recently an ad campaign run encouraging people to rent their properties to the council for social housing.
To ask the Chief Executive how much is the ad campaign costing – whether or not the cost is to be picked up by SDCC - and how successful was the ad campaign? What was the uptake compared with a similar period for the previous year?
To ask the Chief Executive what strategy is in place to deal with undesirable activities in public playgrounds where small children play (an example being a recent situation on 17th June last where teenagers were kicking a ball in the enclosed playground at Griffeen, Lucan and an woman got hit by the ball as did a pram and people were abused, including the Park Ranger, who reportedly then had difficulties in getting said individuals to leave); whether there is a case for CCTV at such locations or allowing rangers to photograph obnoxious offenders for passing on to Gardai; or whether the law only allows for the Gardai to be called in in such circumstances; and if so, what additional measures can be put in place to deter such spoilsports from interfering in the enjoyment of young families, while not taking a draconian approach to other teenagers who are simply having fun without interfering with anybody else.
To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed update on the Feasibility Study to investigate the potential for small-scale hydro generated power; including the results of Stage 1; and details of the assessments of the sites visits?
To ask the Chief Executive to report on when new village signage including ‘welcome’ signage and way-finding signage will be installed in other villages in the County?
To ask the Chief Executive if a plan is in place to upgrade existing CCTV installations where it has been deemed that the quality of recorded footage is too poor to support efforts at successful prosecutions?
To ask the Chief Executive to outline in detail the guidance or criteria (other than provided in the Act) used by Planning Officers in deciding whether a submission of additional information for a planning application constitutes ‘significant’ additional information or not?
That the Chief Executive report on the use of glyphosate by the Council, that he report on the potential dangers of this substance, and that he report on its continued use in SDCC in the context of restrictions on its use and bans in other jurisdictions?
To ask the Chief Executive how many trees are intended to be planted by the Council during 2015, broken down by local electoral area, and to make a statement on tree planting in the Council in general?
Has the Council researched and tested the product Glyphosate as it used in the county as a weed killer and has the council established that it is not a risk to public health? If you have you, might share the details of this research.
To ask the Chief Executive to detail the number of digital speed displays currently in use in the County.
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 through to the end of June; 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 further provide the total number of housing allocations made by SDCC from Jan to June this year and the number of these allocations that went to households in emergency accommodation.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the incident of dumping in across the county, by electoral area, identifying particular bad spots, the number of complaints from members of the public and the average “Turn around” or response time to have the material picked up?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the litter programme and to include in his report an outline of the system now in place?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the care and maintenance of the new play spaces and to make a statement on the desirable standards and how these can be maintained?
To ask the Chief Executive if he can make available to the elected members the actual cost of the recent plebiscite that restored the correct spelling and name to Palmerstown. Separately, can the Chief Executive provide the number of signposts replaced since the plebiscite and cost of these?
To ask the Chief Executive to give details, in respect of each Electoral Area, of the number of additional voters that were added to the Supplementary Voting Register in advance of the recent Referendums.
To ask the Chief Executive to present an update on actions and events he plans in respect of the Healthy Cities Initiative.
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm, in respect of each Electoral Area in our County, how many Planning Applications were lodged since January 1 last and if he could also confirm how many of these Planning Application related to residential accommodation?
To ask the Chief Executive if he would confirm, in respect of the planned Villages Initiatives, if he proposes to have meaningful consultations with local business interests in all the Villages involved throughout our County to ensure that disruption and inconvenience is kept to a minimum?
To ask the Chief Executive to present a full update on his plans in respect of the new Voting Register for next year, confirming that the work plan is properly funded and progressing and will he appreciate that the 2016 Voting Register may be particularly important and will he also confirm that every effort will be made to register as many new voters as possible particularly those who registered for the supplementary registers before the Referendums?
That the Chief Executive report on the current empty properties that SDCC has on its Books, Residents are complaining about choice base lettings that there are no new properties on the system?
To ask the Cheif Executive to issue a report on about what can be done to prevent people letting their dogs poo and not picking it up. It is a county wide issue and what is being considered and how can the issue be progressed to a satisfactory conclusion?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the Homeless and Housing crisis report to include number of house available on CBL by month from January 15 , also how many registered as homeless in SDCC and a breakdown of same and how many are in hotels? how many on Housing list? how often is list updates? are people in rented accommodation still deemed to have a housing need? as much detail as possible.
To ask the Chief Executive to issue a report on Grass cutting in SDCC. Is this given out to private contractors ? is the area suppose to have litter picked up in advance of grass cutting? Is the standard inspected after work is carried out? is the grass supposed to be picked up after cutting? what is the standard expected?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the following :
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How much was raised by South Dublin County Local Authorityfrom the street furniture licence programme in 2015, 2014 , 2013 and 2012?
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How much does it cost South Dublin County Local Authorityto administer and police the programme.?
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How many businesses are licenced in the local authority area.?
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Finally how much profit does the local authority benefit from the programme.?
To ask the Chief Executive to issue a report on what Housing is available and how many houses are available to people who may wish to re locate outside of Dublin? Has there been any uptake on this option? Are there any Resettlement grants available and if yes what has been the uptake of same?
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
(H7 NO REPORTS)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES & SITES
H-I (8) (a)- Disposal of strip of land at junction of Outer Ring Road and Citywest Avenue
H-I (8) (b) - Disposal of plot of land adjacent to 12 Wellington Park, Templeogue
H-I (8) (c) - Disposal of plot of land to rear 36 Dargle Wood, Knocklyon
H-I (8) (d) - Disposal of plot of land to rear 37 Dargle Wood, Knocklyon
MONTHLY MANAGEMENT REPORT
TREE MANAGEMENT POLICY
DRAFT IRISH LANGUAGE SCHEME 2015 - 2018
PART 8s
a)Part 8 - Saggart Village
b)Part 8 - Rathfarnham Village Improvement Works
c)Part 8 - Lucan Village Improvement Works
d)Part 8 - Grange Castle Internal Road
TO CONSIDER REPORT ON CONSULTATION PROCESS ASSOCIATED WITH DRAFT TREE PRESERVATION ORDER [LOCK ROAD LUCAN - PLANNING REGISTER REFERENCE NUMBER TPO/0005] IN ACCORDANCE WITH S205 OF THE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ACT 2000
Correspondence
Ministerial
Letter, dated 12/06/2015, from Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to Employment (M01/0415)
Ministerial
Letter, dated 16/06/15, from Minister for Finance in relation to Local Property Tax (LPT) (M9/0914)
MINISTERIAL
Letter from Minister for Justice & Equality dated 06/07/15 re M23/0615 - Review of Garda misconduct
Email from Ballina Municipal District re: Motion passed - Freedom of the Press
Letter from Cork City Council - Extract from Council Meeting 2nd June 2015 re: Opening of Social Housing Schemes
Letter from Donegal County Council dated 17th June 2015 re: motion passed
"That Donegal County Council supports the Irish Deaf Society's call for Irish Sign Language to be recognised as an Official Language".
Motions
That SDDC ask that the EPSEN Act 2004 be enacted or updated to meet current needs
That this council ask the Chief Executive to write to Department of Transport requesting details on the number of fines issued in relation to HGV incursion into restricted areas within the county over the last 12 months
To ask the Chief Executive that this council look in to the site at Jacobs on the Belgard road for another enterprise center for start up Business in the Tallaght area.
This site has been empty for over 9 years, this council could look in to the possibility of attracting new start up business to the area, employment is a key factor in our county and a new start up business pk would generate employment to the area.
That this Council calls for a reduction in the VAT rate on NEW residential construction from 13.5% to 9% to reduce house prices and stimulate residential construction.
That this Council establish a working group to consider the growing problem of obesity within our County. That such a working group would be made up of representatives from across a wide variety of stakeholders - schools, planners, elected members, management, with input from Social & Community SPC, Parks, Libraries, sporting bodies, this list is but an example of the agencies whose participation and involved is essential to its success and is therefore not exhaustive. As part of working group the involvement of schools could be achieved through the Parents’ Associations and perhaps the libraries in our County could host cookery demonstrations during Health & Wellbeing week. Another possible idea might be to extend the “social credit” scheme to children who walk/cycle to school or perhaps participate in a new/additional sport.
To call on the Chief Executive for a scheme be developed where the council addresses the issue of graffiti removal in the cases of private properties facing out onto public areas? In many instances owners do not have the money or expertise to remove the graffiti themselves and I feel it is appropriate for the council to take this on as a responsibility.
There are many houses, schools, churches in our county which suffer greatly from the blight of graffiti and do not have the resources needed to repeatedly deal with it. When graffiti is then left on these walls the whole community suffers because the area is left unsightly.
That the Chief Executive reinstate the 2nd Tree Pruning crew with immediate effect and follow through on the commitment given to this Council last year, and allow them to help clear the excessive back log of trees that require pruning or removal.
That this Council calls on the Chief Executive to present a full report on his plans to provide Social Housing throughout our County this year, confirming discussions he has had with the Department of Environment and Local Government and also confirming the schedule being followed in respect of the plans and his proposals to consult local communities.
That the Chief Executive presents a report on 'twinning' in South Dublin County with a view to establishing / developing links with the United States of America.
That the CEO initiates a formal review of the SDCC House extension Design guide 2006 and proactively engages with An Garda Siochana in relation to this.
That this Council upgrade it's specification for all new windows and doors to PVC for all new infill housing and retrofit same where necessary.
That this council requests that the manager engages with Women's Aid or a similar organisation to arrange for all housing staff to receive training in dealing with people that have been, or are in domestic violence situations.
That this Council call on the Manager to introduce a cleaning service, similar to the Sunday Village cleaning service, to allow our Public Parks and Playgrounds to be cleaned on Sundays,during the period of late Spring and Summer months, when the public footfall is at it's highest.
That increased resources be provided to the County Parks to effectively deal with overflowing bins, litter and debris that has increased over the summer months.
That this County Council supports the ongoing efforts of the GAA to identify a site for the provision of a regional stadium and centre of excellence amongst other facilities and calls on NAMA to reconsider its decision to refuse the sale to the GAA of the former Spawell site having regard to the social, recreational and economic benefits to the County of locating such a development on that site.
That this Council calls on the Chief Executive to examine the potential of putting in place a multi-annual programme of support for our County’s Amateur Boxing Clubs, including provision of sustainable, permanent accommodation; with a view to bringing proposals before the elected members in advance of future budget discussions.
To ask the Manager to do a study regarding the Play Space Roll Out programme across the County and in particular to try and ascertain why the Play Space at The Park Community Centre in Ballycullen, is not as successful as the other Play Spaces around the County and to report back to this Council on its findings.
That the Council provide a report on action taken to date in respect of illegal signage that is proliferating throughout the County and furthermore increase resources for effective "policing" of offenders.