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CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
a) Minutes of the April County Council Meeting on 8th April 2019
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Rathfarnham/Templeogue-Terenure Area Committee - 9th April 2019
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
(No Reports)
b) Clondalkin Area Committee – 17th April 2019
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
(No Reports)
c) Tallaght Area Committee – 15th April 2019
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
(No Report)
d) Lucan Area Committee – 23rd April 2019
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
(No Reports)
STANDING COMMITTEES ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE
(No Reports)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
a) Housing SPC
(i) Report of Meeting
(ii) Minutes of Meeting
REPORT FROM JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(No Reports)
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive to outline the exact detail of the public liability insurance policy or legislation which would/could leave members or staff personally liable in the event of an accident following installation of cattle grids, as previously mentioned to Council members.
To ask the Chief Executive to outline how long families are spending in homelessness on average including a breakdown of the time spent in homelessness by those who get housed through HAP and those who get housed by the council or AHB?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on when/if bulky waste collections were provided by Council and the cost of same?
To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the provision of social housing by SDCC in 2019, including all finished developments, those currently being built, those which have been approved, and those currently being planned, and to make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive, in the interests of public amenity and environmental sustainability, to ensure the prompt installation of public water fountains in South Dublin County in areas including parks, villages and other suitable locations, and to make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a year-on-year report of private rented tenancy inspections up to 2019, to note in the report the percentage of passes and failures in the reports, and to provide details on the nature of such failures.
To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the contract with Ashton Dog Pound; to provide statistics on the dog warden and pound service for 2019; and to make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on accessible equipment at playspaces installed in 2019 by SDCC; to ask him if it is planned to provide more accessible equipment suitable for children of all abilities at more Council playspaces and playgrounds; and to make a statement on the matter.
Can the Chief Executive confirm what signage must private operators of parking meters, erect in the open public spaces where they operate. For instance if the meters are effective 24/7 with one hour free, then is it adequate to erect signage which says one hour free with no mention of what hours metering is operational within. Photos provided of current signage at Abberley Square which appears to be clamping based on the parking meters being operational 24/7.
To ask the Chief Executive to present to the Council a report on progress being made to deliver the Pavillion Programme; will he give detail in respect of each proposed location and will he make a statement.
To ask Chief Executive if he would confirm if he has any plans to implement proposals made at the recent seminar on the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; will he also compliment the staff involved on the success of the well attended seminar and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive if any contact has been made with him in respect of any breaches in the Council of the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956 regarding Gaming Machines; will he appreciate the clear need to uphold the law in this regard and will he make a statement.
To ask the Chief Executive to present a report to this final meeting of this Council term in respect of all matters relating to the ongoing house crises, will he detail contacts with Government in respect of the whole matter and will he make a statement.
To ask the Chief Executive to present a report on preparations he now has in place to deal with challenges which will be presented by the Annual Halloween Season; will he understand the concerns of communities effected by this issue over the last few years; will he share his thoughts, and will be make a statement.
To ask the Chief Executive if he has plans to contact the central remedial clinic in Firhouse with a view to supporting the implementation of their accessibility logo project across South Dublin?
To ask how many complaints SDCC have recieved in relation to cynical attempts to flout the rules regarding the erection of “public meeting“ posters in the run up to next months elections and to ask how many of these posters if any have contravened these rules and been removed?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the provision of bottle banks in our county and given the issues around them how SDCC can provide much needed recycling in our county?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the provision of Housing and how many houses have been built by year 2014 to 2019 in the lifetime of the current Council?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the planting of new trees this year in SDCC and to say how many by LEA and to outline the importance of trees in our fight against climate change?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into Registered Homeless in Our county by year 2014 to 2019 and to comment how this will be addressed and the need for emergency accommodation be addressed going forward?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on housing output from June 2018 to present, including part 8s passed and the same report for the same period in 2017 and 2016?
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DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES
H-I 8 (a) Proposed disposal of 10 Crag Crescent, Clondalkin Industrial Estate, Dublin 22
H-I 8 (b) Proposed disposal of plot of land to rear Millennium House, Main Street, Tallaght, Dublin 24
H-I 8 (c) Proposed disposal of fee simple in 22 Owendore Crescent, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
H-I 8 (a) Proposed disposal of 10 Crag Crescent, Clondalkin Industrial Estate, Dublin 22
H-I 8 (b) Proposed disposal of plot of land to rear Millennium House, Main Street, Tallaght, Dublin 24
H-I 8 (c) Proposed disposal of fee simple in 22 Owendore Crescent, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
MANAGERS REPORT
DRAFT CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION PLAN 2019 - 2024
VARIATION TO COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN – NAAS ROAD
UPDATE ON THE RIVER PODDLE FLOOD ALLEVIATION SCHEME
APPLICATION FOR GRANTS
SUMMER PROJECTS 2019
DRAFT AFFORDABLE SCHEME OF PRIORITIES
DRAFT ALLOCATIONS SCHEME
PART 8 - GRAND CANAL GREENWAY HAZELHATCH TO 12TH LOCK
BALLYCULLEN/OLD COURT LAP
RESOLUTION TO BORROW FOR REBUILDING IRELAND HOME LOANS
DRAFT TRAFFIC (PERIODIC SPECIAL SPEED LIMIT) BYE LAWS 2019.
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OFFICE OF THE PLANNING REGULATOR
TO CONSIDER REPORT ON DIGITAL COMMUNICATION, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING AND BRANDING
Correspondence
Ministerial
Correspondence dated 28th March 2019 from the Minister for Transport Tourism and Sport in response to Motion 8 (Free Public Transport) from the February 2019 Council meeting.
Ministerial
Correspondence dated 10th April 2019 from the Minster of State for Community Development, Natural Resources & Digital Development in response to Motion 9 (Construction of a Publicly Owned Dog Pound) from the 2019 January Council meeting.
Ministerial
Letter dated 3rd April 2019 from the Minister for Rural & Community Development in reply to Motion 7 (Funding for Community Centre Staff) from the March 2019 Council meeting.
Ministerial
Letter dated 15th April 2019 from the Minister for Justice and Equality in response to Motion 5 (Not Consent Exhibition) from the February 2019 Council meeting
Correspondence dated 3rd April 2018 from Met Éireann in reply to Motion 5 (Reporting severe weather on an all-Ireland basis) from the 2019 March Council meeting.
Letter dated 8th April 2019 from Irish Rural Link in relation to the status of the National Broadband Plan
Letter dated 27th March 2019 from Westmeath County Council regarding a recently passed motion relating to Insurance Reform.
Letter dated 1st April 2019 from Donegal County Council in regards to a recently passed motion relating to the All Ireland Pollinator Plan.
Motions
This Council calls on the Government to take immediate steps towards implementing a Labour Court Recommendation to provide pensions for Community Employment (CE) scheme supervisors, furthermore this Council supports the CE Supervisors in their industrial action planned from the 13th of May.
Early intervention is key to the future mental well being of our young people. Jigsaw is a vital service across South County Dublin. This Council is opposed to any restructuring of Jigsaw that will entail a reduction in the current services to our young people. Furthermore this committee agrees to write to Jigsaw management and to Minister Jim Daly calling for all current services to be retained as they currently are.
That this Council calls on the Chief Executive to present an update on his continuing efforts to deal with the housing crisis as it effects our County and in reporting will he give details of the number of applicants currently being considered and also confirmation of the number of allocations made during 2018 and will he give a detailed report.
This Council acknowledges the many well documented difficulties of Families with Children living in Homeless Hubs. By extension, this Council acknowledges the well documented difficulties of trying to rear children in such close quarters with the stigma of Homelessness attached is very much amplified for larger families. Therefore this Council strives to urgently move people on to more secure housing with a particular emphasis and urgency on re-locating larger families into secure accommodation.
With funding dried up for the Rebuilding Ireland Home Loans, that this council writes to Minister Eoghan Murphy to ask him to furnish them with extra funding to continue with the scheme.
This Council agrees that carbon tax is not the answer to tackle climate change. Carbon tax is a regressive tax. It targets the wrong people and does not challenge the real cause of carbon emissions . This Council calls for a stoppage of any implementation of a new carbon tax and calls for immediate action on investment in renewable energy, public transport and a stop to licences issued to extract fossil fuels
To call on the Chief Executive to review plans for Tallaght Stadium after the opening of the South Stand on Sunday 24th March and the inadequate area given for visitors requiring use of the accessible stand. For a project which had multimillion investment, comfortable viewing should be standard and well thought through, not completed in a cost saving manner. In addition, with circa 2million invested, I call on the chief executive to examine why a changing place facility was also not installed as part of the new build. With further building scheduled, it would be beneficial to the stadium, the council and most importantly visitors, that access is to equal standard for all guests within what we strive to call our Accessible County.
Given the National Housing Crises and the fact that its impact on members of the Traveller Community can be most severe, and building on the track record of this Council in providing Traveller Accommodation, this Council being very concerned at the plight of those Traveller families who, in the absence of the intended network of Transitional Halting sites and camping legislation and who have a necessity to move with their mobile home, have very little or no option except to set up temporary camps in unauthorised locations and without essential sanatory and other supportive services in this County, often with consequential detrimental effects on local residential areas, calls on the Chief Executive to negotiate with the Management of the Camac Valley Caravan Park for the reservation of at least 10 pitches to be used as a Pilot Transitional Site for Travellers, until such time as a purpose built Transition site is provided for Travellers in the Greater Dublin Area, and that Council Management draw up criteria and rules for the regulation of such a facility, including the maximum period of stay on any pitch, and in doing so that the Council consult with, and seek the support of: the Department of Housing, Community and Local Government, the three other Dublin Local Authorities, The Dublin Homeless Executive, the Irish Traveller Movement, the Clondalkin and Tallaght Traveller Support Groups and the SDCC LTACC.
That this Council calls on the Chief Executive to review Council policy regarding Tree Preservation Orders which are included in our County Development Plam, specifically the removal of a Tree Preservation Order.
That this Council pilots a number of 3D pedestrian crossings in the county, as have been launched internationally in Iceland, India and China, so as to encourage drivers to slow down when approaching areas where particularly vulnerable people are crossing that don't have school wardens, including my own personal suggestion, at the location of the crossing identified for the users of Stewart's Care in Palmerstown. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/3e316454-02b6-4b1a-8369-da71a2377f25
That this council noting the recent Cervical Check Scandal, calls upon the Minister for Health, the Taoiseach to acknowledge, support and respond in detail to the demands of the Standing 4 Women* Campaign. These include Legislation and policy on mandatory open disclosure independent of the patient safety bill,
Provision of a start and end date and full disclosure on the 1800 smears yet to be audited, Breakdown of the new packages being negotiated laboratories carrying out smear slide analysis including mandatory site audits.
I have submitted motions and questions over the years regarding drainage works at Owendoher Haven, including in April 2016 "That a full drainage inspection is carried out and any works necessary completed, before construction begins on the 40 new houses off Ballyboden Road. Sewage overflows have been reported twice in 6 months all around the Boden Park/Owendoher Haven areas and this will only get worse when more houses are relying on the system.". I visited the site recently and saw that raw sewage is still flooding the houses, and that occupancy of the new units is delayed because of this.
This Council calls on the Chief Executive to expedite a permanent solution to the problem of sewage polluting homes, and report on what work is being done to alleviate the problem currently.
That this Council, in order to increase awareness and accountability in relation to environmental pollution and climate change, introduces an environmental rating for local businesses similar to that of Food Safety based on their practises. The details of the scheme to be discussed at the Environment SPC and a report be produced for full council.