Agenda - November 2024 Tallaght Area Committee Meeting

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Date:
25/11/2024 15:00
Location:
Council Chamber
Standing Orders:

Headed Items

H-I (1)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Tallaght ACM Administrator

"Minutes from Tallaght Area Committee Meeting 29th October, 2024."

Water & Drainage

Questions

Qu (1)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Damien McNulty

"To ask the manager if a thorough inspection of the poddle running through Bancroft Park be carried out to establish the source of the issues with pollution - I got a report that there is a smell from the water that is quite toxic?"

Headed Items

H-I (2)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Water & Drainage

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (1)
Submitted by:
Water & Drainage
Responsibility:
Water & Drainage

Correspondence (No Business)

Public Realm

Questions

Qu (2)
Submitted by:
Councillor K. Keane
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"To ask the management to reconsider the issue around installing bins at shops in the Tallaght South area due to a high volume of littering around these shops?"

Qu (3)
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Richardson
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"Can the Manager report on clean up of all bonfires from Halloween and issue the cost for this service in the tallaght area?" 

Headed Items

H-I (3)
Submitted by:
Public Realm
Responsibility:
Public Realm

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (2)
Submitted by:
Public Realm
Responsibility:
Public Realm

Correspondence(No Business)

Motions

Mot (1)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"Since the removal of kiss gates in certain locations in DVP and the decommissioning of the CCTV there has been a rise in scrambler activity in the park not only causing damage but excluding park users and affecting the surrounding housing estates , can a urgent review be undertaken to reinstate the measures that were implemented by SDCC to stop scrambler activity as these measures worked?"

Mot (2)
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Duff
Responsibility:
Sharon Conroy

"That this Area Committee offers it warmest congratulations to the Tidy Towns Groups from around Tallaght who participated in the 2024 Tidy Towns Competition and to thank them for their great volunteerism?"

Mot (3)
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Duff
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"In consideration of preventing further damage from bonfires and to encourage more recreation and healthy lifestyles, this Area Committee calls on the Manager to consider installing an excercise path complete with path games and excercise equipment around the perimeter of the football pitch located between Tymon North and Tymonville and to actively support the Community in maintaining this area as a sports field and recreation area?"

Mot (4)
Submitted by:
Councillor N. Whelan
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"This area committee requests that a review be carried out on the decision to remove kissing gates at Dodder Valley (Homelawn end) as it has coincided with a spike in Scramblers entering, destroying the park and putting the safety of park users at risk?"

Environment

Headed Items

H-I (4)
Submitted by:
Environment
Responsibility:
Environment

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (3)
Submitted by:
Environment
Responsibility:
Environment

Correspondence (No Business)

Housing

Questions

Qu (4)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Vivienne Hartnett

"To ask the manager when will building commence on the 620 Home Mixed-Tenure Development TheFoothills, Killinarden'?"

Qu (5)
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Richardson
Responsibility:
Amanda Mills

"To ask the manager to make a report on how many vacant houses are in the Tallaght area. And how long it will take for them to be re let?"

Qu (6)
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Richardson
Responsibility:
Amanda Mills

"Can the Manager make a report on trees in the gardens of Tenants in the Tallaght area of sdcc some residents are reporting that the trees in rear of gardens have gone so big they can not maintain them. Can the Council help with this?"

Qu (7)
Submitted by:
Councillor N. Whelan
Responsibility:
Vivienne Hartnett

"Could the manager provide an update on Killinarden Foothills and a potential start date?"

Headed Items

H-I (5)
Submitted by:
Housing
Responsibility:
Housing

New Works (No Business)

H-I (6)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Fiona Hendley

"Anti-Social Behaviour Q3 Report." (For Noting).

H-I (7)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Amanda Mills

"Housing Allocations Q3 Report-(For Noting)".

H-I (8)
Submitted by:
Housing Administration
Responsibility:
Vivienne Hartnett

"Housing Delivery Q3 Report".

Correspondence

Cor (4)
Submitted by:
Housing
Responsibility:
Housing

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (5)
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Holohan
Responsibility:
Amanda Mills

"This Tallaght area committee call on SDCC to prioritise deer park ave block 53-61 in regards of an on going mould problem?"

Community

Questions

Qu (8)
Submitted by:
Councillor K. Keane
Responsibility:
Edel Clancy

"To ask the management for a report on the broken boom in the Tallaght Leisure Centre to include cost of the repair?"

Headed Items

H-I (9)
Submitted by:
Community
Responsibility:
Community

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (5)
Submitted by:
Community
Responsibility:
Community

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (6)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Edel Clancy

"On a recent visit to St Dominic's Community centre I noted the great service to the community however the footprint of this community centre is very small and limits the amount of people /activities that the centre can cater for, i would like to call on the manager to request that a review of the centre be carried out with a view to extending the building to give extra space to this vital amenity for this area?"

 

Transportation

Headed Items

H-I (10)
Submitted by:
Transportation
Responsibility:
Transportation

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (6)
Submitted by:
Transportation
Responsibility:
Transportation

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (7)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Mary Maguire

"The area outside Furniture Design has a paid parking section which has caused huge issues for residents in St Maelruans Park and Mountain Park due to people parking in their estates - can the paid parking be removed from this particular area as it is not in the village and shouldn't really be a site for paid parking?"

Mot (8)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Gary Walsh

"The entrance to village green apartments at westpark has a huge issue with hedges at the entrance that are blocking the footpath and causing huge issues for residents who have to walk on the road instead of the footpath can whoever is responsible for this maintenance carry it out as it is a health and safety matter that has been reported but not addressed - photos attached I would appreciate your attention on this matter?"

Mot (9)
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Donnelly
Responsibility:
John Hegarty, Mbakure Johnson

"This Tallaght area committee calls on the SDCC to come up with a solution to the parking problem in Fernwood on the Maplewood road?"

Mot (10)
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Holohan
Responsibility:
Gary Walsh

"This TAC call on the council to prepare a social media information piece on how to use the salt bins as a community?"

Mot (11)
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
Gary Walsh

"The area committee requests the manager to write to Transport Infrastructure Ireland regarding parapet improvements to the Charles O'Toole footbridge in Tallaght to make it safer?"

Mot (12)
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
Gary Walsh

"The area committee requests the manager urgently consider accepting the transfer of land from St. Kevin's Church, Kilnamanagh, Tallaght - owned by St. Laurence O'Toole Diocesan Trust - so that public lights can be installed outside St. Kevin's Family Resource Centre?"

Planning

Headed Items

H-I (11)
Submitted by:
Planning
Responsibility:
Planning

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (7)
Submitted by:
Planning
Responsibility:
Planning

Correspondence (No Business)

Motions

Mot (13)
Submitted by:
Councillor N. Whelan
Responsibility:
Eoin Burke

"This area committee calls on the council to address the state our National Monument "The Fosse" has been allowed fall into and requests it be brought back to a respectable condition?"

Economic Development

Questions

Qu (9)
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Richardson
Responsibility:
Laura Leonard

"Can the manager report on events planned for Tallaght stadium?"

Qu (10)
Submitted by:
Councillor N. Whelan
Responsibility:
Laura Leonard

"Are there any plans to host non sporting events open to the public in Tallaght Stadium in 2025?"

Headed Items

H-I (12)
Submitted by:
Economic Development
Responsibility:
Economic Development

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (8)
Submitted by:
Economic Development
Responsibility:
Economic Development

Correspondence (No Business)

Libraries & Arts

Headed Items

H-I (13)
Submitted by:
Libraries & Arts
Responsibility:
Libraries & Arts

Application for Arts Grants-No updates since the last ACM.

H-I (14)
Submitted by:
Libraries & Arts
Responsibility:
Libraries & Arts
H-I (15)
Submitted by:
Libraries & Arts
Responsibility:
Libraries & Arts

NEW WORKS (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (9)
Submitted by:
Libraries & Arts
Responsibility:
Libraries & Arts

Correspondence (No Business)

Corporate Support

Questions

Qu (11)
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Costello
Responsibility:
Fiona Hendley

To ask the manager can SDCC engage with Tallaght Community First Responders in relation to connecting power to AED to keep them warm during winter months

Headed Items

H-I (16)
Submitted by:
Corporate Support
Responsibility:
Corporate Support

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (10)
Submitted by:
Corporate Support
Responsibility:
Corporate Support

Correspondence (No Business)

Performance & Change Management

Headed Items

H-I (17)
Submitted by:
Performance & Change Management
Responsibility:
Performance & Change Management

New Works (No Business)

Correspondence

Cor (11)
Submitted by:
Performance & Change Management
Responsibility:
Performance & Change Management

Correspondence (No Business)