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CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES - FOR APPROVAL
(a) County Development Plan Meeting Minutes - 1st March 2022
(b) Adjourned County Development Plan Minutes – 3rd March 2022
(c) Adjourned County Development Plan Minutes – 7th March 2022
(d) Adjourned County Development Plan Minutes – 9th March 2022
(e) March Council Minutes – 14th March 2022
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
a) Calendar of Meeting Dates
b) Report on Conferences/Seminars
g) Standing Orders Review
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
(No Reports)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
(No Reports)
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive how many units have been allocated/secured to assist Ukrainian Refugees seeking accommodation within SDCC - broken down by own door / shared accommodation
To ask the Chief Executive how long is the current process time for Social Housing Support applications (based on all necessary information and documentation being submitted)
To ask the Chief Executive how many housing support applications were received in the past 12 months
To ask the Chief Executive of the housing support applications that were received in the past 12 months how many were submitted without relevant supporting documentation or incompletely filled out
Can the Chief Executive provide me with the overall number of road traffic accident deaths within the Local Authority boundary in each of the last five most recent years for which final or preliminary figures are available?
Can the Chief Executive provide me with the number of road traffic accident cyclist deaths within the Local Authority boundary in each of the last five most recent years for which final or preliminary figures are available?
Can the Chief Executive provide me with the number of road traffic accident pedestrian deaths within the Local Authority boundary in each of the last five most recent years for which final or preliminary figures are available?
To ask the Chief Executive how many private rental inspections have been carried out in the 1st quarter of 2022 and how many of those inspections were found to have breached minimum standards?
To ask the Chief Executive to produce a report on the number of construction sites and the number of workers employed week-by-week in the county currently contracted by SDCC.
To ask the Chief Executive if any inspections by SDCC have taken place to ensure adherence to employment laws following on the passing of Motion 2 (Item ID: 73452) in January 2022, or if no inspections have taken place to report on actions taken to implement the motion?
To ask the Chief Executive can he comment on what impact inflation and rising costs of material will have on the provision of affordable homes at Killinarden, Kilcarbery , the Belgard Square site and any other proposed affordable housing initiatives on council owned land
To ask the Chief Executive if the Council has requested additional funding from central government due to rising costs of material provision to assist in the provision of affordable homes, if so what is the status of any such request?
To ask the Chief Executive to comment on the proposed impact of the Government's approach to rate supports during the Covid pandemic and any subsequent tapering off of state supports? Does he see a similar level of expenditure as 2022 being available through rates for the 2023 Budget?
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm that the dedicated email for queries in relation to door and window inspections windowsanddoors@sdublincoco.ie is now operational as emails have returned 'undeliverable', if operational, how many queries have been received and to confirm if this channel can be used to request confirmation of both inspections, decision outcomes and approximate individual scheduling of work approvals.
To ask the Chief Executive to present an update on the Travellers Accommodation Programme.
To ask the Chief Executive if he can report any progress over the last 6 months on dealing with the Boarded up Council houses issues;will he give details for each Electoral Area and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to present details of proposed completion dates for all Council Housing Projects in the County and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive what actions he is taking to promote the Local Authority Home Loan Scheme and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm actions being taken in respect of the Litter Management Programme; will he appreciate the concern of many in respect of this ongoing challenge and will he make a statement?
To ask the Chief Executive to present his review of last years Halloween Bonfire Season confirming costs involved and if the review has informed his plans for the 2022 Season.
To ask the Chief Executive to explain the reason for the council charging €300 for a memorial tree and planting and to ask how that this is broken down and to include how the applications are assessed and what the criteria is ?
To ask the Chief Executive what supports SDCC will provide to Ukrainian refugees and to outline what the council response will be to the many issue facing Ukrainian refugees in SDCC ?
To ask the Chief Executive what supports SDCC can provide to Ukrainian refugees who are in need of English-speaking course where they can learn English as needed?
To ask the Chief Executive how many are on the housing list in SDCC by electoral area and housing need ?
To ask the Chief Executive how many houses/apartments are expected to be provided from 2019 – 2024 (the term of the current Council) - broken down by type i.e. part Vs, construction etc. ?
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DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS
(No Reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES - FOR APPROVAL
(a) Proposed disposal of substation site and grant of Right of Way to the ESB - St Catherine's Row, Killinarden Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24
(b) Disposal of and regularisation of plots of land at Esker, Lucan, Co. Dublin - SDCC & St Laurence O'Toole Diocesan Trust
H-I 7 (A) 1557 Proposed disposal of substation site and grant of Right of Way to the ESB - St Catherine's Row, Killinarden Heights, Tallaght, Dublin 24
H-I 7 (B) LD 1539 Disposal of and regularisation of plots of land at Esker, Lucan, Co. Dublin - SDCC & St Laurence O'Toole Diocesan Trust
MANAGERS REPORT - FOR NOTING
PART 8 FOR PROPOSED WORKS AT LUCAN DEMESNE AND LUCAN PROMENADE – FOR APPROVAL
PART 8 FOR PROPOSED WORKS AT LUCAN VILLAGE GREEN AND MAIN STREET – FOR APPROVAL
TAKING IN CHARGE OF THE AUBREY MANOR HOUSING ESTATE – FOR APPROVAL
TAKING IN CHARGE OF THE REMAINDER OF WILKINS VIEW HOUSING ESTATE – FOR APPROVAL
DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT 2021 - FOR APPROVAL
ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT
(a) Annual Financial Statement 2021 - For Noting
(b) Additional Expenditure - For Approval
CAPITAL PROJECTS PROGRESS REPORT – FOR NOTING
Correspondence
REPLIES & CORRESPONDENCE
Replies
(a) Reply from Minister for Health re. IVF Services
(b) Reply from Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage re. Voting Rights to include 16 and 17-year-olds.
(c) Reply from Charlie Bird re. Motor Neurone Disease
(d) Reply from Russian Ambassador re. Invasion of Ukraine
(e) Reply from Reply from Minister for Education re. State Examinations 2022
Correspondence
(f) Correspondence from Westmeath County Council re. Children with Spina Bifida
(g) Correspondence from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council re. County Development Plan
Motions
This County Council agrees to write to the Minister for Transport, asking him to bring forward legislation to underpin universal design and accessibility in public spaces, increasing access for people with disabilities, older people and families.
That, due to the intense energy usage required, this Council calls for a nationwide ban on servers hosting unregulated digital currency exchanges. Following agreement of the motion that a letter issues to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Minister of Finance.
That this Council calls on the Minister of Social Protection to introduce a General Maintenance Collections Agency, given the continuous difficulties that single parents face collecting maintenance and the need to go to court to have court orders enforced when they are not abided by. This Agency is necessary in order to protect parents from having to chase these payments and in order to put an end to this form of financial abuse.
That this Council calls on the Taoiseach to immediately implement a set of measures to tackle the Cost of Living Crisis that is Devastating Families across the State from both Working and Middle Class Demographics, which has seen 70% increases in Heating Oil, 30% increase in Gas, 25% increase in Electricity, 8% Increase in Rents and €1,200 average increase in petrol prices for the average driver along with increases in Groceries and other Essential Goods. This has resulted in the Highest inflation rates in 20 years of more than 5,5% and that's without the Governments scandalous proposed increases in Carbon Tax at a time of crisis. These measures at the least should include: The introduction of a living wage, the introduction of a cost of living payment based on annual income, the scrapping of Carbon Tax Increases, a ban on Rent increases for 3 years, Increase in Fuel allowance criteria, Removal of VAT on Energy Bills during winter Months, the Establishment of a discretionary utility debt Fund. These measures should form a base for tackling the crisis for struggling Families across the State.
That this Council writes to Minister for Housing and Local Government, Darragh O'Brien, to support his Department's initiative of setting up a working group to examine the possibility of utilising the Housing Act of 2013 to allow for local authority rents to be withdrawn directly from social welfare payments where tenants in receipt of welfare are more than 3 months in arrears.
That SDCC County Council will call on the Ministers for Justice; Education; and Children, Disability, Equality & Integration to immediately implement an Operation Encompass-style programme between An Garda Siochana and schools. Operation Encompass is a police-led, school-based early intervention safeguarding scheme which supports children and young people who experience Domestic Abuse. Operation Encompass was created to ensure that by the start of the next school day, a child's school will be informed that there has been a police-attended incident of domestic abuse at the home of the child. The child is then supported immediately upon arrival at school. In 2020, Women's Aid (Ireland) reported that there were 30,841 disclosures of abuse including 5,948 were against children. We need to support these children now.
That this Council confirms its pride in, and continued support for, Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality, and writes to the Taoiseach to declare these views
That this Council supports the decriminalisation of drug use, meaning that people will no longer be made criminals simply because of their use of a drug: that people's drug use should be dealt with as a public health issue rather than as a criminal issue and that the resources currently used to process the 72% of drug convictions that are for personal possession should be redirected to treatment and support services and to more effective policing of the drugs trade. We commit to sending this motion to the Minister for Justice and the Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy for their consideration and response.
That this Council calls on the Minister for Transport, the Environment, Climate and communications and the NTA to review its dismissal of continuing Metrolink to the southwest of the city and to carry out further and more extensive research before committing to placing a major metro terminus in a residential area like Charlemont instead of in a city centre location
An increase on Carbon Taxes of €7.50 was announced in Budget 2022, from €33.50 to €41.00 per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. The increase applies from 13 October 2021 for auto fuels and 1 May 2022 for all other fuels and is set to rise to €100 per tonne emitted by 2030. The carbon Tax is not tackling the environmental damage caused by the producers and profiteers of fossil fuel emissions, including the approximate 14 Data Centres, and major pharmaceutical companies listed in the South Dublin County Council area. It is another tax on workers and energy that hits the poorest and those on limited incomes hardest, and is exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis. It represents the opposite of a “just transition”.
This council calls for the scrapping of the carbon tax increases due from May 2022 and the reversal of 2021 increases. We call for immediate direct taxation of a national or local variety on big polluters, the implementation of increased price controls on energy for households, and a rapid shift to renewable energies under public ownership and communicates this motion to the Minister for Environment, Climate, Communication Transport, and The Minister for Local Government and Heritage.