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CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES - FOR APPROVAL
(a) December Council Minutes – 13th December 2021
REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
a) Rathfarnham/Templeogue/Firhouse/Bohernabreena Area Committee
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
b) Clondalkin Area Committee
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
c) Tallaght Area Committee
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
d) Lucan/Palmerstown/North Clondalkin Area Committee
Dealing with Public Realm, Water & Drainage, Housing, Community, Planning, Economic Development, Libraries & Arts, Corporate Support, Performance & Change Management
STANDING COMMITTEES ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE - FOR APPROVAL
(No Reports)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
(No Reports)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
(No Reports)
REPORT FROM JOINT POLICING COMMITTEE - FOR NOTING
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive for details of the further dumping blackspot treatment and monitoring proposed under the Anti-Dumping initiative and how the use of cctv footage will feature in same.
To ask the Chief Executive for an update firstly in relation to the proposed county wide signage strategy including details of the agreed locations for improved signage and secondly in relation to the proposed noticeboards/digital noticeboards.
To ask the Chief Executive how much Local Property Tax was paid for by the Council for local authority houses in 2021
To ask the Chief Executive what the total rent arrears due to the Council from tenants on HAP and RAS is for 2020 and 2021
To ask the Chief Executive how many homes have been provided in the SDCC area, ie built and connected to the ESB mains, through the Strategic Housing Development scheme introduced in 2017?
To ask the Chief Executive to list existing approved Strategic Housing Developments in the SDCC area and provide information on how long approval has been granted?
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on the progress on the District Heating Scheme - when will it start functioning and when will it be full functioning and how much carbon emissions will it save per annum?
To ask the Chief Executive what measures are the Council taking to educate and actively encourage the citizens of the county to reduce their carbon footprints.
To ask the Chief Executive to present a report on his review of the recent Halloween Season; will he give details of the costs involved in dealing with the challenges and also state what progress is being made in repairing Open Spaces damaged by Bonfires and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on actions taken to deal with the challenges presented recently by Storm Barra and will he make a detailed statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide details of plans to provide new Libraries in the County and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to detail actions he is taking to encourage the development of Cycle Parking Bays throughout our County and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive will he give assurances of support to Community Centres who are seriously concerned at the rising costs of insurance; will he give details of advice he offers in the matter and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive what actions he is taking to deal with the boarded up vacant Council houses and returning them to housing stock for allocations; in respect of each Electoral Area, will he detail how many such units have been dealt with this year and also how many such units are now vacant and will he make a statement?
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DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS
(No Reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES - FOR APPROVAL
(No Reports)
MANAGERS REPORT - FOR NOTING
LUCAN DEMESNE CAR PARK PART 8 – FOR APPROVAL
KILCARBERY UPDATE - FOR NOTING (PRE-RECORDING)
DESTINATION LUCAN TOURISM PROPOSITION - FOR NOTING
CORPORATE PLAN ANNUAL REVIEW - FOR NOTING
RESIGNATION OF COUNCILLOR M. DUFF FROM THE ARTS, CULTURE, GAEILGE, HERITAGE AND LIBRARIES SPC AND NOMINATION OF A NEW CHAIR - FOR APPROVAL
RESIGNATION OF COUNCILLOR B. LAWLOR FROM THE ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC REALM AND CLIMATE CHANGE SPC AND NOMINATION OF A NEW CHAIR - FOR APPROVAL
CHANGES IN SPC MEMBERSHIP - FOR APPROVAL
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
(a) Correspondence from Minister for European Affairs, Thomas Byrne T.D. re. New network of EU Councillors.
(b) Correspondence from Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Leo Varadkar T.D. in response to Motion 1 (Data Centres) at the October 2021 Council Meeting
(c) Correspondence from Minister for Planning and Local Government, Peter Burke T.D. in response to Motion 1 (Data Centres) at the October 2021 Council Meeting
(d) Correspondence from Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defense, Simon Coveney T.D. in response to Motion 4 (Boycott of Israeli Goods) at the October 2021 Council Meeting
(e) Correspondence from the office of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth, Roderic O'Gorman T.D. noting receipt of Motion 12 (Conversion Therapy) at the November 2021 Council Meeting
Motions
This county council reaffirms its commitment to tackling the climate and biodiversity emergency and commits to creating more habitats for wildlife and biodiversity in our county.
That this council agrees that the Chief Executive should seek to put in place an agreement with the Trade Union Federation (BATU) for a system of employment compliance inspections on all construction sites whereby SDCC have contracted out works to building contractors. That the aim of which is to tackle the problem of bogus self-employment status on building sites initiated by SDCC.
This committee requests the Chief Executive agree to carrying out a review of our public litter bins. Further to question raised and answered in previous meeting (October 21) and Given that "The issues of size, colour and shape of litter bins were not considered in that review" has been made clear, we now ask that our bins/design are considered for a review if its confirmed that our bins have not changed since their initiation.
QUESTION NO. 28 QUESTION:
Councillor L. O'Toole
Over the last 18 months+ we all experienced challenges in our parks in particular the demand put on our public litter bins/litter bin service. Can then Chief Executive confirms to members as to when litter bins (their size, colour, shape etc) were last reviewed.
REPLY:
A review of the litter bin service was carried out under the remit of the Environment, Climate and Public Realm SPC commencing in November 2016 and concluding in February 2017, with reports presented to both of those SPC meetings. This review examined a wide range of issues including the number of bins in service, the configuration of the collection routes, unauthorised use of litter bins, the issue of dog fouling waste, smart solar powered bins and a number of other issues. The issues of size, colour and shape of litter bins were not considered in that review. The operation of the litter bin service remains under constant review due to the changing nature of the demands on the service, increasing waste tonnages arising from servicing of bins and other issues. The 2017 report from the litter bin review then led to a trial of solar powered, smart street litter bins being carried out from November 2019 to May 2020 in the Rathfarnham area. Reports on this trial were then presented to the Environment, Water and Climate Change SPC at both the May and September 2020 meetings of the SPC. Reports and reviews listed above are available at the following link https://www.sdcc.ie/en/services/our-council/council-meetings/strategic-policy-committees/
That this council supports expanding voting rights to include 16 and 17 year olds. Should the motion be agreed, writing to notify An Taoiseach, the Minister of State for Heritage and Electoral Reform and the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.
Given the amount of hard work undertaken by volunteers to collect and bag fallen leaves can this council provide residents with clear bags next year 2022, the lack of provision of clear bags for volunteers this year is resulting in some people using black sacks which leads to delayed collection.
That the Chief Executive write to the Minister of Health to fast track surgery for the 82 children with Spina Bifida and/or Hydrocephalus currently waiting, and that provision of services is made to Disabled Children within elective Hospital settings as well as acute Hospital settings to avoid a repeat of this situation in the future.