Agenda - January 2007 County Council Meeting

CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES

a) Minutes of Annual Budget Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 30th November 2006.

b) Minutes of Adjourned Annual Budget Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 7th December 2006.

c) Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 11th December 2006.

d) Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 18th December 2006.

(all circulated herewith)

• a) Minutes of Annual Budget Meeting 30/11/06
• b) Minutes of Adjourned Annual Budget Meeting 7/12/06
• c) Minutes of Council Meeting 11/12/06
• d) Minutes of On Site Meeting 18/12/06

REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES

a) Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (1) - 5th December 2006

Dealing with Roads, Planning, Development and Corporate Services

(no report)

b) Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (2) - 12th December 2006

Dealing with Community (1 report - Grants), Parks, Environment and Housing (1 report - Shared Ownership)

(circulated herewith)

c) Tallaght Area Committee (1) - 4th December 2006

Dealing with Environment, Parks, Community (1 report -Grants) and Housing

(circulated herewith)

d) Tallaght Area Committee (2) - 18th December 2006

Dealing with Roads Planning, Development and Corporate Services

(no report)

e) Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee (1) 6th December 2006

Dealing with Development, Planning (1 report - RPA), Corporate Services and Roads

(circulated herewith)

f) Lucan/ Clondalkin Area Committee (2) 19th December 2006

Dealing with Environment, Parks, Community (1 report - Grants) & Housing

(circulated herewith)

 

• H2(b) Community Grants
• H2(b) Shared Ownership
• H2(c) Community Grants
• H2(e) RPA
• H2(f) Community Grants

STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE

(no report)

STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES

Arts, Culture, Gaeilge, Education, and Libraries Strategic Policy Committee

(i) Report of Meeting  held on 14th December 2006

(ii) Minutes of Meeting held on 28th September 2006

(circulated herewith)

• H4(i) Arts SPC Report
• H4(ii) Arts SPC Minutes

REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES

(no report)

To ask the Manager to look at providing non-profit making community facilities with reduced water charges or to exempt a certain amount of water from any charge at all?

• Q1 Water Charges

To ask the Manager to report in detail on what funding was provided in 2006 for various programmes designed to provide recreational amenity benefits for the children and teenagers of South Dublin? 

• Q2 Recreational Facilities

To ask the Manager to report on what improvements are envisaged in 2007 to enhance the domestic refuse collection services in South Dublin?

 

 

• Q3 Domestic Refuse Collection

To ask the Manager how she proposes to enhance the junk collection service in 2007 for South Dublin, including details on what estates in what areas, if any, are still not included in the five year collection cycle? 

• Q4 Junk Collection

To ask the Manager if it is envisaged to increase the cost of the bin tag for the collection of the black bin in 2007? 

• Q5 Cost of Bin Tag

 To ask the Manager as mentioned at the Budget meeting on 7th of Dec 2006, could the manager compile a table of meetings held between representatives of business interests in the Tallaght Area during 05/06 in relation to the Town Centre Plan and officials in the Council, including date and time of meetings, who attended and a simple summary of what was discussed?

• Q6 Tallaght TC Meetings

 To ask the Manager can the tonnage figures for waste handling including the breakdown into Black Bin, Green Bin etc be made available as soon as they become available for 2006?

• Q7 Waste Tonnage Figures

 To ask the Manager how are rates calculated and are their plans to review the system?

• Q8 Rates

DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS

(no report)

PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES

a) Proposed Disposal of Land at Drumcairn Avenue, Tallaght, Dublin 24 for the provision of an ESB Sub - Station

(circulated herewith)

 

• H7(a) Drumcairn Disposal
• H7(a) Drumcairn Disposal- Map

REPORT ON PUBLIC NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE UNDER PART 8 OF THE PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS-2003 FOR THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF 4 UNITS AT OLDCHURCH AVENUE, CLONDALKIN

(circulated herewith)

• H8 Construction of 4 units at Oldchurch

Lease of land for provision of National Basketball Arena at Tymon North, Tallaght, Dublin 24 to the Irish Basketball Arena Limited- Approval to entering into Deed of Undertaking with the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism

(circulated herewith)

• H9 Deed of Undertaking - NBA

Section 38 Report on Traffic Calming at Willowbank Drive, Rathfarnham

(circulated herewith)

• H10 Traffic Calming
• Map

REPORT ON M50

(circulated herewith)

• H11 Report on M50

Letter,  dated 30th November 2006 from County Carlow VEC regarding motion passed in relation to VAT Rates on personal protective clothing.

• Co. Carlow VEC

Letter, dated, 1st December 2006 from Nenagh Town Council regarding motion passed calling on the Department of Social and Family affairs to increase the fuel allowance timescale.

• Nenagh Town Council

Letter, dated 8th December 2006 from Letterkenny Town Council requesting a written guarantee from companies employed by Letterkenny Town Council to ensure that statutory labour rights and entitlements will be given to workers contracted or sub-contracted by these companies.

• Letterkenny Town Council

Letter, dated 22nd December 2006 from Dublin Bus in reply to South Dublin County Council's letter regarding question approved at the Council Meeting held on 19th September 2006.

• Dublin Bus
• SDCC's letter

That this Council will adopt a policy of using the Irish Language in the naming of all new housing estate developments.

That this council approves the following change to the disposal of 'end of life' vehicles:-

a)  That the €50 charge be scrapped.

b)  That a sum of perhaps €200 be paid to people who bring a car to an 'end of life'  unit.

That that the Members discuss the process to secure the integrity of the Council's planning files and call on the Manager to improve it in light of recent failures by the Council to fulfil its obligations in this regard. 

That this Council values the role and contribution of the Community Forum and Community Platform and will positively support them by holding at least one conference per annum dealing with issues of concern to the community and voluntary sector to which the executive from both organisations, as well as the elected members of the Council be invited and by  providing each organisation with a full time support worker and by including both organisations on the relevant invitation list for council events.

That the Manager would report on the initial stages of the Review of the Water Leisure Strategy specifically regarding the provision of the outstanding Swimming Pools.  Would the Manager also set out in detail his intentions to ensure that the necessary funding is available in the case of government funding not being made available. 

 

That in the light of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to which Ireland has signed up, and which includes the right of the child to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child, and the onus  the National Children's Office, the National Children's Plan and the National Play Policy place on local authorities to provide for children exercising this right, this Council should appoint a Play Officer as it is required to do under the National Play Policy.

That the Manager review the criteria for animal rescue groups that entitles them to have fees waived: 

• Confirmation of an organisation's status as a registered charity.
• Confirmation of planning permission to operate a dog pound facility
• Copy of a current General Dog Licence
• Names of the nominated individuals, approved by the organisation to collect dogs on behalf of the organisation

as not every animal rescue group is a registered charity,  no rescue centres have permission to operate a dog pound as these are rescue centres and not every animal rescue have premises and many volunteers operate from their homes and will he give a report on the matter.

 

 

That this Council recommends that South Dublin County Council reduce the use of fossil used fuel by switching to a renewable energy source.

That this Council agree that apartment buildings in this Council should include the following - a concierge service, and coin operated washing and drying machines in a communal area which would do away with the need to dry clothes on balconies.

That this Council, in order to combat the proliferation in illegal domestic clothing collections;

investigates the possibility of introducing bye-laws which oblige all collectors to clearly identify their company/organisation name , address, landline and other relevant company/organisation/charity number details, together with the relevant tax clearance details;

and inter alia introduces severe penalties for those collectors and residents who knowingly breach these regulations;

organises a publicity campaign to alert householders to any proposed changes

and examines best practise in this regard.

That South Dublin County Council adopt a policy whereby our County Council would purchase back houses in Council estates from elderly residents in return for them moving into rented sheltered accommodation.

That this Council agrees to draw up a policy as per  circular PD1 of 2006 from the Minister reminding planning authorities of their legal obligation imposed by section 180. The circular also stated that planning authorities must establish a policy for the completion and taking in charge of estates, and  (b) that it include a policy on management companies.

That in view of the enormous barriers facing young people in securing their own homes in South Dublin, due to rampant inflation in house prices in every part of the County and the failure of Government to adequately resource the provision of Social Housing and Affordable Housing, this Council re-affirms its commitment to realising in practice the delivery of 15% of all housing in the County as Social and Affordable Housing under the Part V process and calls on the Manager to refuse to negotiate any departure from this requirement with any developer in the County.

That this council, in accordance with new public sector procurement procedures (SI no. 329 / 2006), calls for the use of environmentally friendly cement in construction and within Local Area Plans.

That the Council undertakes a review of the regulations governing the siting of planning application roadside public notices, particularly in light of obvious flaws relating to where a planning application may be lodged within an estate that directly affects residents to the rear of that house but located in a different estate.

That the Manager would agree to bring forward a detailed report or discussion on the implications for cyclists of increased traffic volumes and gridlock on our roads, as well as considerable road widening programmes, including the Outer Ring Road, the N4 and M50.