Headed Items
CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES - FOR APPROVAL
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, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart and Brittas Area Committee Meeting
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
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING
Questions
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on vacant homes, report to include how many vacant homes have been identified and how many have being brought back into use?
To ask the chief executive how much was spent in 2022, 2023, and 2024 purchasing homes for use as social housing and how many units were purchased.
To ask the chief executive how many homes SDCC is leasing from private owners for use as social homes, and the related cost to leasing these homes.
To ask the chief executive what proportion of workers employed by the council in 2022, 2023 and 2024 were contract workers as opposed to permanent members of staff.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the vacant home grant, report to include number of applications and how many have been successful?
To ask the chief executive what procedures are in place in its procurement processes and elsewhere to ensure that any contractors engaged by SDCC are (and remain) fully compliant with employment and labour law.
To ask the Chief Executive about the efforts being taken by the Council, including through engagement with telecom providers, to remove telephone kiosks and other eyesores that have been negatively impacting the scores of Tidy Towns groups across the county in the National Tidy Towns Competition?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the management and conduct of local elections including the management of polling stations, the count, etc. Report to include if there will be an opportunity for candidates, agents, tally volunteers and polling station and count staff to provide feedback on relevant matters?
To ask the Chief Executive to report on the number of outstanding footpath repair requests recorded by the Council, broken down by electoral area. Report to include the process for inspection and prioritising of request, the number of requested defects which he expects will be repaired in 2024?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the progress, broken down by electoral area, of the cyclical programme planned street tree maintenance. The report to include whether all roads and estates scheduled for maintenance in 2023 and 2024 will be completed by end of this year and to outline the level of resources, both internal and external, being deployed by the Council in 2024 to implement the programme?
To ask The Chief Executive for a report on the SDCC housing stock. Report to include what is the status of merging the Windows and Doors program into the Energy Efficient Retro Fit program?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on measures in place to reduce congestion and parking on school routes. Report to include plans to improve congestion and safety on roads leading to and from schools, outside the school gate, and in surrounding estates.
To ask the Chief Executive if he can offer a detailed list of traffic and community projects that are being delayed due to failure of ESB to install connections to the network.
To ask the Manager for an update on the public lighting issues - outlining if there has been a decrease in lights out of order / wait times for repair and how many are out of order?
To ask the manager for a report on the number of voids in the county broken down by LEA
To ask the manager for current timelines for processing social housing support applications based on an application being correctly submitted
To ask the manager for an update on the status of outstanding projects that have been allocated Sports capital grant funding by LEA.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on Traveller Accommodation upgrades. Report to include if there are plans to upgrade from "Day Houses" to proper three/four bedroomed family homes on the present sites?
Would the Chief Executive give a report on Park Rangers. Report to include the present numbers of Park Rangers, across all of our parks, the current recruitment plan.
Can the Chief Executive confirm if a standard "Park Ranger" four wheel drive vehicle will be visible in all of our parks?
To ask the Chief Executive if the Domestic Violence and Awareness training, which was being explored by the interagency team, has been secured? Additionally, have the frontline staff who will attend this training been identified?
To ask the Chief Executive when will the reestablishment of the Apprenticeship Scheme commence?
To ask the Chief Executive are there plans to increase the Trades workforce within the Council?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the dressing room Pavilion programme, a schedule of works on the programme and to give a statement on the matter.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on current laneway cleaning programme, a schedule of work and to give a statement on the matter.
Can the Chief Executive inform if it is possible for a person to keep their homeless hap, if they need to move, as the property they have obtained turns out to fall below living standards eg mould problems, damp, problems heating problems, structural issues.
To ask the Chief Executive how much was recovered by the council in Vacant or Derelict Sites Levies in 2023 and how much is currently outstanding?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the number of social housing 4 beds expected to be coming on stream in the next 12 months and in what LEA they will be located?
Can the Chief Executive provide a report on derelict sites already in the process of CPO.
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on vacant homes, the report should include the number of declared habitable homes, the number of homes which were exempt from VHT and an overview of reasons for same?
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on the number of Housing Assistant Payment tenancies in SDCC; the report should include changes in the number of those in receipt of HAP since last year?
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on the number of those on HAP transfer lists who were accommodated on the Choice Based Letting list so far this year?
To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the progression of the signage for Greenways in the County as passed at a full Council in 2023.
To ask the chief executive if there are any plans to install bike bunker bike parking facilities across the county? See https://bikebunkers.ie
To ask the Chief Executive to explain the reasoning behind the delay in implementing a motion that was passed which requires a site notice to be erected for each planning application?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on Date Centres operating in SDCC administrative area. Report to include how many are currently operating and how many are in the planning process?
To ask the Chief Executive if all-weather pitches planned for installation will include microplastic containing infill materials which have been banned in the EU from September 2031 because of their impact on nature and potential risk of cancer?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into how many one off houses have been applied for and agreed in SDCC for planning since the motion agreed in the latest county development plan?
To ask the Chief Executive What SDCC can do about the health and safety and humane treatment of Horses in our county, and address public anger, following a RTE Prime Time investigates shown on 12-6-24?
To ask the Chief Executive would he consider in our parks an app called ‘box up’. It's an app you sign up to and you can get to use sports equipment for free?
To ask the Chief Executive For a update report on The use of CCTV to identify and fine people in our county who engage in Dumping?
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on the number of housing maintenance. This report should include requests outstanding, the type of maintenance requested, and the month/year requests have been made.
To ask the Chief Executive to give a report on in-situ homes, the report should include average turnaround time of sale, current backlog with processing and if any sales have been pulled due to length of time taken to complete the process.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the number of public bins removed without replacement, and the locations they were removed from, across the county in the last 12 months.
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES - FOR APPROVAL
(A) Proposed disposal of plot of land at 54 St. John’s Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
(B) Disposal of fee simple in 7 St. Patrick’s Cottages, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
(C) Disposal of fee simple in 43 Avonbeg Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24
(D) Disposal of fee simple in 133 St. Maelruans Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
(E) Proposed disposal of substation site to ESB for Intergenerational Centre, Tymon Park, Dublin 6W
Proposed disposal of plot of land at 54 St. John’s Crescent, Clondalkin, Dublin 22.
Disposal of fee simple in 7 St. Patrick’s Cottages, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14
Disposal of fee simple in 43 Avonbeg Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24
Disposal of fee simple in 133 St. Maelruans Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24
LD 1598 - Proposed disposal of substation site to ESB for Intergenerational Centre, Tymon Park, Dublin 6W
MANAGERS REPORT & CAPITAL PROJECTS PROGRESS REPORT - FOR NOTING
12TH LOCK PART 8 – FOR APPROVAL
GRANGE COTTAGE AT 12TH LOCK, GRAND CANAL – FOR APPROVAL
APPROVAL FOR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE TO DEFEND A JUDICIAL REVIEW TAKEN AGAINST THE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN (JONES INVESTMENT LIMITED V SDCC [2022/686JR] - FOR APPROVAL
DRAFT SPC SCHEME - FOR NOTING
LCDC 2023 ANNUAL REPORT – FOR NOTING
COMMUNITY GRANTS REPORT - FOR NOTING
REPLIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE
Replies
H15(A) Response from Minister for Mental Health and Older People RE ADHD UMAAP Programme
Acknowledgements
Correspondence
H15(B) Archival Preparations for The National Centre for Research and Remembrance
H15(C) Fingal County Council Motion -Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty (1)
H15(D) Wicklow County Council Motion to employ full time Road Safety Officer
H15(E) Monaghan County Council Motion passed RE Free Education Scheme
Motions
That this council lead by example and introduce designated poster area zones in each LEA in consultation with Tidy Towns groups ( either billboard type or electronic screen type ) to eliminate the use of one use cable ties and poster waste.
This Council notes with concern the increasing number of sports pitches deemed unplayable over the course of winter and spring and the negative impact on local sports clubs and participants. In light of this growing issues this Council requests Council management to investigate further means to improve drainage and the possibility of increasing the number of all-weather pitches available in the County.
That this Council, sharing the public outrage at suspended sentences being applied for a succession of extremely violent assaults, calls on the Minister for Justice, the Law Reform Commission and the Judicial Council to ensure that there are meaningful consequences for such behaviour in the future.
That the Chief Executive write to the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Peter Burke calling on him to implement the recommendations of the Low pay Commission and end sub-minimum wage rates for workers under the age of 20.
That this Council agrees that the Housing SPC develop a policy for community based supported living for adults with disabilities.
This council calls on the Chief Executive to increase the number of bottle banks in the county.
That Council agrees to make South Dublin County Council an apartheid-free zone and boycott all Israeli goods.
That the Chief Executive initiate Compulsory Purchase Order proceedings on all sites that are on the Derelict Sites Register (as published 20/06/2024)
This council calls on the chief executive to immediately reverse the policy of removing public bins from this county as a method of reducing illegal dumping of domestic waste and requests that all public bins removed for this reason are replaced as a matter of urgency.
That the chief executive to write to the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, calling on him to meet with local representatives regarding the lack of public health nurses in the south Dublin county area.
This Council welcomes and commends the roll out of Communication Boards at playing facilities in SDCC which aim to improve accessibility and inclusive play for children with language difficulties, and calls on the Chief Executive look at the feasibility of their inclusion in other parks, pitches or play facilities where appropriate.
That this Council writes to the Department of Housing asking that, when assessing eligibility for Housing Adaptation Grants, that the income of the whole household, as opposed to the individual seeking assistance, should not always be taken into account, and that there be flexibility to determine each application on a case by case basis to prevent undue hardship
That this Council calls on the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to introduce a community benefit scheme to be paid into by companies and business interests that use extensive state resources but offer a low worker/job ratio comparative to industrial norms.