Headed Items
CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
(a) - September Council Meeting Minutes - September 9th 2019
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Rathfarnham/Templeogue/Firhouse/Bohernabreena Area Committee - 10th September 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 – 18th September 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 – 23rd September 2019
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
(No Reports)
d) Lucan/Palmerstown/Fonthill Area Committee – 24th September 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
a) Draft Calendar of Meeting Dates
b) Report on Conferences/Seminars
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
(No Reports)
REPORT FROM JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(No Reports)
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the SDCC local authority energy consumption rates for the last two years and whether it is believed that SDCC is in line to meet its 2020 target.
To ask the Chief Executive to outline how members of the public can contact SDCC to remove dangerous items left in public spaces such as discarded syringe or other similar objects in a timely and safe manner. Can this information be included onto the council website? Does the council get many calls about this and would council staff come across such paraphernalia regularly? And would the Chief Executive care to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Chief Executive to outline most recent data on the numbers for 2017, 2018 and to end of August 2019 on the social housing list as well as the HAP transfer list as well as how many of those have been housed since and to ask for full information as to how the HAP transfer list works both in principle and in reality.
To ask the Chief Executive how many community creches are in operation in the South Dublin County Council area, where they are located and what plans there are to extend such services across the county.
Childcare costs are now the highest in the world, with families in this area now paying the equivalent of a second mortgage each month. There is also no sign of this improving any time soon as costs increased by 5.5% this year despite state subsidies being introduced. Would the Chief Executive care to make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to examine the feasibility of installing dog waste pick up bins, with a glove or bag station above them, specifically for picking up after pets to tackle the problem, firstly, of dog waste not being picked up and secondly, the problem of dog waste being picked up, bagged but then thrown into the surrounding trees/bushes.
To ask the Chief Executive what additional provisions/ supports are in place for our rough sleepers now that we are entering the winter season and especially over the Christmas period
To ask the Chief Executive will SDCC be meeting with community representatives well in advance of Halloween so they can voice their concerns and be assisted by SDCC in minimising damage caused by bonfires and anti social behaviour
To ask the Chief Executive what is the process in place for persons on the Medical Priority/Disability List to express interest in dwellings, as they don't have access to Choice Based Lettings.
To ask the Chief Executive what provisions / supports are in place to support or find suitable accommodation for a person who presents homeless but for good reason e.g. (victim of abuse in institutional schools) will not accept shared sleeping accommodation offered in a hostel.
To ask the Chief Executive what information is provided by the Council to contractors concerning the impact of works carried out on biodiversity and whether there exists in those contracts a term concerning the need to avoid negatively impacting on biodiversity.
To ask the Chief Executive to outline on an annualised and total basis up until September 30, 2019, how many trees were cut down since 2014 by the Council or its agents; to outline the main reasons for same if data available; to outline how many trees were planted by the Council or its agents during the same period; and if a statement can be made on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive if a comparison has been carried out in relation to carbon emissions per capita for each city or county administrative area in Ireland and if so, where does South Dublin compare?
To ask, further to my motion in January if the Chief Executive can further report on its formal plans for the management and upgrade of pet farms in the county on lands owned or maintained by this local authority, as well as its relationship with dog pounds and outlines improvements made or planned in how the welfare of the animals under its care are treated; and if a statement can be made on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive if there are any current plans to provide additional emergency accommodation in the county, particularly for single people?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the plastic bottle/can deposit scheme (reverse vending machine) including proposed locations in the county?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the number of homeless in South Dublin County, including a breakdown of families/individuals and what type of emergency accommodation are being accessed?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the frequency of his engagement (i.e. the number of meetings) and that of the Directors of Services with their counterparts in the other Dublin local authorities on matters of common interest over the past 18 months, specifically transport policy, housing and economic development and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the contacts between South Dublin County Council and National Transport Authority and Transport Infrastructure Ireland with regard to strategic transport infrastructure in the county, specifically the N4/Kennelsfort Road interchange and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed report, by electoral area in tabular form for each year, on the number of social houses acquired, purchased or built by South Dublin County Council since January 2011 and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed report on the length of time spent by families in Family Hub Accomodation built and managed by the Council before entering more permanent housing and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a detailed report as to how it engages with private management companies in relation to housing across the county and if he will make a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive to detail the number of parking fines issued throughout the County in the last 12 month and to provide a breakdown of the fines per electoral area.
To ask the Chief Executive to outline the number of trees felled in the County by this Local Authority in the last 12 months and to detail the numbers felled per local electoral area
Is the councils target of 33% improvement in the councils energy efficiency by 2020 (Slide 4 of presentation given at September Council meeting) to be achieved by 1st January 2020 or 31st December 2020? How is this 33% improvement in efficiency to be measured e.g. is it relative to a baseline or business as usual scenario for total energy use?
Can the Chief Executive confirm if the six action teams to be set up as part of the implementation of the Climate Action Plan have met since the plan was adopted last month? The implementation plan stated that 'It is proposed that each Action Team meet monthly for the first three months and revising to every second month thereafter.'
Action Team 1; Energy and Buildings
Action Team 2; Transport
Action Team 3; Flood Resilience
Action Team 4; Nature Based Solutions
Action Team 5; Resource Management
Action Team 6; Citizen Engagement
Is SDCC a member of REPAK (https://repak.ie/)? If not does SDCC have any commercial dealings with REPAK?
Is SDCC twinned with any other municipalities in other countries? Has it been in the past? Related to this does SDCC senior management attend annually any international fora where ideas are exchanged?
To ask the Chief Executive for a progress report on the Traveller Accommodation Programme, to include the activity planned for 2019 and expected outcome in terms of Units completed and to include an update on the Caravan Loan Pilot.
To ask the Chief Executive for an update report on the Tree Strategy for the County and to include by Local Area Committee, (a) the number and type of requests from residents for action on particular trees since September 2017, (b) the number of trees that are still on the “to do” list and (c) given the increased storm activity in Ireland in recent years, to report on the risk analyses that has taken place given the very large trees that have been allowed develop in some housing estates and that are a source of concern, even real fear, amongst residents.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the types and levels of financial supports made available to community centres in 2017 and 2018 and to include in his report a breakdown per Local Area Committee.
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm actions he is taking to encourage Community Groups and Associations to seek Deputation meetings and in reporting will he hive details in respect of the whole issue and make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to report to the October meeting of the Council of actions and plans now in place to deal with the challenge of the Halloween Bonfire season; will he give assurances and make a detailed statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to detail claims made against the Council over the past year and will he make a statement in the matter?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on work towards the publication of the 2020 Voting Register and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to present a report detailing his efforts to deal with the Housing crisis; will he confirm numbers currently on lists and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive whether any structure is in place to assist the first wave of couples who partook in the Affordable Housing Scheme (2009) to secure enlarged homes now that their families have predictably expanded.
To ask the Chief Executive if there is a current provision in the planning bye-laws to cater for the health and safety requirements arising where builders and subcontractors parking in the immediate surroundings of a development, including Council owned grass verges, blocking the traffic line of sight of residents in the immediate vicinity.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report in to what SDCC pay to private bin company's to collect the County rubbish and what the cost is to the taxpayer via our property tax, to include as much information as possible?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report in to how many additional emergency hostel beds SDCC intends to provide within SDCC for the next five year term and what the cost of this will be to the taxpayer?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into what new roads will be built in the next 5 years to ease traffic congestion within our towns and villages in the county and to provide a timeline and estimated cost for same?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report in to fire safety in Council owned housing, specifically apartment blocks & traveller accommodation, to include how often assessments in regards to fire risk are done and what are the associated costs?
To ask the chief executive for a report in to services in SDCC and how many of them are contracted out and what the cost is to the taxpayer via our property tax? (Grass cutting , Tree Pruning)
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS
(No Reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES
H-I 8 (a) Proposed disposal of plot of land at junction of Commons Road and St. John’s Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
H-I 8 (b) Small Builders Scheme - Proposed Disposal of Fee Simple Interest in 44, Balrothery Estate, Tallaght, Dublin, 24
H-I 8 (c) Small Builders Scheme - Proposed Disposal of Fee Simple Interest in 4 Limekiln Avenue, Walkinstown, Dublin, 12
H-I 8 (a) Proposed disposal of plot of land at junction of Commons Road and St. John’s Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22
H-I 7(b) Small Builders Scheme - Proposed Disposal of Fee Simple Interest in 44, Balrothery Estate, Tallaght, Dublin, 24
H-I 7(c) Small Builders Scheme - Proposed Disposal of Fee Simple Interest in 4 Limekiln Avenue, Walkinstown, Dublin, 12
MANAGERS REPORT
OVERDRAFT ACCOMMODATION REQUIREMENT 2020
CAPITAL PROGRAMME QUARTERLY REPORT
SPC SCHEME 2019-2024
PART 8 - HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ON THE EIRCOM SITE AT NANGOR ROAD
UPDATE ON PROPOSED MIXED TENURE HOUSING DEVELOPMENTS
Correspondence
Letter dated 16th September from NTA in response to Motion 18 (Eco-friendly Bus Shelters) from the September 2019 meeting.
Letter from Monaghan County Council regarding a motion passed in support of the National Ambulance Service Representative Association at their recent Council meeting
Motions
That this council extends our congratulations to the Dublin Mens Team and Womens GAA Football Team on their recent successes in the All Ireland Final
That this Council calls on the Irish Government to immediately plan for a United Ireland and furthermore to ask the Minister to call on the British Secretary of State to set a date for a border poll on Irish Unification
14/10/2019 - At the October Council meeting the above motion was amended as follow:s
That this Council calls on the Irish Government to immediately plan for a United Ireland and furthermore noting the principal of consent enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement to ask the Minister to engage with the British Secretary of State proposals in relation to how a date for a border poll would be agreed. And that the government produce a White Paper on Irish Unity.
That this Council will commit to move towards a County-wide voluntary ban on election posters and, as a first step, will agree here and now to limit voluntarily the number of posters to one hundred per candidate per Local Electoral Area and to refrain from erecting posters in areas zoned rural, and that the Environmental SPC be asked to identify suitable designated postering areas with a view to limiting all future election postering to one such area per LEA.
This Council commits to maintain the current Rent Differential Rate for Local Authority tenants at 10% and the continuation of the €10 per household discount for Local Authority tenants aged over 65, for the term of this Council.
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.
That this County Council confirms that it will endeavour to ensure that single use plastics are not used at all South Dublin County Council events and in particular large scale outdoor events and festivals with a view to banning single use plastics at any such event within the next 12 months
In view of the number of Post Primary schools in our County and the number of additional schools planned, and taking into account the amount of Section 29 Appeals for refusal to enrol that are going through the DDLEB and the DES, owing to the amount of parents or guardians that are missing application dates or acceptance dates, for Post Primary Schools, due to varying forms of notices of when this process starts and finishes, that this Council calls on the Minister of Education and Skills, to introduce a national registration period, applicable to every Post Primary School, in an effort to ensure that each potential pupil is given a fair and equal chance to enrol at the appropriate time, in the school of their choice.
That we write to the Minister for defence also An Taoiseach asking that the long over due medals for gallantry and distinguished service specifically for the Irish soldiers of “A” Company who served at Jadotville in 1961 be awarded. These medals were promised by former Taoiseach Enda Kenny in his final days in Office and still they have not been received.
That the Chief Executive put in place effective measures, to ensure that housing estates, in relation to which the conditions of the relevant planning permissions have been complied with, are taken in charge without delay, given the financial repercussions for the residents.
Following the attached Sinn Féin motion that was passed in March of this year, This Council reaffirms it’s call to the Chief Executive to review the current waste collection services in conjunction with the other Dublin local Authorities and the Unions with a view to the remunicipalisation of the domestic waste service whereby the Council would take charge once again of the Service but this time in a more efficient and cost competitive manner than was previously the case
This Council, given the recently launched Climate Action Plan and County Climate Emergency, and the recognised role of Trees in tackling Carbon emissions, calls on the Chief Executive to plant at least one acre of native trees over the 2019/20 planting season and that this be in addition to the planned tree planting schedule for 2019/20.
That this Council provides medical priority / disability list applicants with a process in which they can express interest in properties similar to Choice Based Lettings.
That this Council calls for the introduction of a South Dublin Bikes scheme, modelled on the Dublin bikes scheme, as a practical step to increase cycling in our county.
The composition of the Land use Transportation & Planning SPC is:
Elected Members x 6
Development Construction x 1
Business Commercial x 1
PPN x 1(environmental pillar)
This council agrees that following this meeting a delegate from the Dublin Cycling Campaign (https://www.dublincycling.com/), is invited to be included as an additional ex officio non elected member of the SPC. This change in the composition of the Land use Transportation & Planning SPC is to reflect the imperative that Dublin's leading advocates of improved cycling infrastructure are members of the county's leading planning forum. Although the other current members of the committee, both elected and non-elected, could advocate for cycling infrastructure, none would have the hands on experience of Dublin Cycling Campaign that could both highlight the significant risks posed to cyclists today while also providing valuable contributions to discussions on future transport corridors. Dublin Cycling Campaign's input would also help formulate the policy changes needed to achieve the significant modal shift towards cycling implicit in the county's climate, health, road safety, air quality and congestion reducing goals and help reduce cycling related casualties
That this council calls on the Chief Executive to review and reform current training, existing practices as well as methods of cross and inter-department communications in order to ensure that the needless destruction of natural environments, whether protected or not within the South Dublin County jurisdiction (a recent example being the Wetlands in Sean Walsh Memorial Park) can never happen again.
Further that all areas currently protected or in discussion as being protected would be brought to the public's attention by way of a page on the council's website or similar and regular updates given to councillors and all departments within the council. Such a review and reform ought to include ways to ensure that all departments are kept up to date about issues of this nature.
Proficient biodiversity training for all staff members, whether directly employed by the council or by private operators appointed to carry out work on behalf of the council should also be provided if this is not already being done.
Training should be provided to every staff member whether involved in the initial decision making or in the subsequent work of cutting, planting, digging, moving, replacing, spraying or any other work that comes into contact with the natural environment.
Signing up to the All Ireland Pollinator Plan and other similar initiatives should also be considered if not already done so.
That the Chief Executive instigates a system of stiffer penalties including the non awarding of future contracts to companies that have not repaired snags or poor quality works on footpaths and roads in our county within a six month timescale of the issue being raised formally by a resident, elected representative on Council employee; and if a statement can be made on the matter.