CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES - FOR APPROVAL

REPORTS OF AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING

NO REPORTS

STANDING COMMITTEES ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE & FINANCE - FOR APPROVAL

NO BUSINESS

STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING

NO REPORTS

REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES - FOR NOTING

NO REPORTS

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the current extent of the invasive plant species rhododendron ponticum within the county, including the locations affected, any significant changes in its spread in recent years, areas of particular concern, the measures being undertaken to control or eradicate the species, and the effectiveness of these measures to date.

To ask the Chief Executive whether the Council will review the documentation requirements for people who are sofa surfing and seeking access to homeless HAP or emergency accommodation, particularly where obtaining confirmation from property owners or landlords may not be feasible.

To ask the Chief Executive whether any policy exists that permits, restricts or prohibits the display of artwork by local artists in community centres, park cafés and other council-operated premises.

To ask the Chief Executive how many families, couples, single men and single women granted permission to remain in the State following residence in IPAS have applied for emergency accommodation or social housing support in South Dublin County Council since 2020, with the information provided in tabular form by year and demographic category.

To ask the Chief Executive how many families, couples, single men and single women granted permission to remain in the State following residence in IPAS have, since 2020, been provided with emergency accommodation or allocated social housing by South Dublin County Council, with the information provided in tabular form by year and demographic category.

To ask the Chief Executive, in light of information obtained as a result of FOIs for Fingal County Council's housing allocation list (https://www.thetransparencyobjective.com/our-research) showing that non-nationals were 1.4 times more likely to get a home than an Irish citizen, to publish the breakdown of housing allocations by i) Irish citizen, ii) UK citizen, iii) EU citizen, iv) non-EEA citizen in tabular form from 2020 to 2025 to allay concerns the same situation is occurring in SDCC.

To ask the Chief Executive to outline the council's policy and criteria for the provision of 30 km/h speed limit signage in residential estates, including at estate entrances and busy internal junctions, in light of the wider introduction of 30 km/h speed limits in urban and residential areas.

To ask the Chief Executive what the current average waiting time is for an applicant on the Council's housing list before being allocated social housing?

To ask the Chief Executive what the current average waiting time is for households on the housing transfer list?

To ask the Chief Executive to outline the Council's protocol following a house fire in a Council-owned dwelling occupied by an SDCC tenant?

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on how many rent accounts have been assessed in 2026 (per month) and the average rent increase per household?

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on all the sites on the Derelict Sites Register including all actions taken on each site in 2026?

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the current number of vacant council owned homes broken down by Local Electoral Area.

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a list of the council owned buildings where the council provide free female sanitary products and bins.

To ask the Chief Executive what measures are being put in place to ensure that heating failures in Council owned homes are addressed promptly during the coming winter period.

To ask the Chief Executive for a report listing all existing and proposed data centres within the Council area, including the Planning Register Reference and current status of each, with a breakdown of those that are operational, under construction, subject to a live planning application, or currently before An Bord Pleanála.

To ask the Chief Executive for a report detailing the number of people in homeless accommodation within the South Dublin County Council area at the end of each of the last five years, together with the number of vacant homeless accommodation spaces available at each year-end.

To ask the Chief Executive how many households entered into a new long-term social housing tenancy in an SDCC-owned or Approved Housing Body (AHB) property during 2025, and whether a projected or expected figure is available for 2026.

To ask the Chief Executive if a financial figure is available for the amount paid in commercial rates by data centres to SDCC in recent years?

To ask the Chief Executive which directorate of SDCC engages with the contracted service provider overseeing road gully clearing?

To ask the Chief Executive what measures are put in place for grass cutting on open park lands during prolonged periods of dry weather?

To ask the Chief Executive to list the roads that do not have paid parking or double yellow lines that South Dublin Parking Services patrol?

To ask the Chief Executive to outline if there are any plans to increase the number of staff contracted by South Dublin Parking Services to monitor parking across the county?

To ask the Chief Executive if it is incongruous that social housing tenants of AHBs do not have access to the SDCC Housing Welfare social workers?

To ask the Chief Executive to provide, by Area Committee area, a breakdown of biodiversity measures delivered through Public Realm works during the past 12 months.

To ask the Chief Executive to identify any biodiversity-managed areas that have been removed, reduced or returned to conventional landscaping in the last 12 months including the reasons for those changes.

To ask the Chief Executive for a report detailing, for each of the past two years, the number of public lighting faults identified through the Council's monitoring system and the number first reported by members of the public, together with the average time taken from detection or report to repair in each category.

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the installation of signage recognising the Gold, Silver and Bronze medal achievements of Tidy Towns groups within South Dublin County confirming which areas received medals, which have had the appropriate signage installed and which remain outstanding including the expected timeframe for completion.

To ask the Chief Executive to examine the provision of appropriate wayfinding signage for sports clubs, community organisations and facilities throughout the County identifying where signage is currently lacking and how a programme of improved wayfinding signage could be progressed.

To ask the Chief Executive if the Council has seen an increase in illegal dumping in 2026 over previous years?

To ask the Chief Executive to outline South Dublin County Council's approach to dealing with abandoned cars and vehicles.

To ask the Chief Executive what has been the average turnaround for vacant social units in 2026?

To ask the Chief Executive what preparations are being made for extreme rainfall events this coming winter?

To ask the Chief Executive if he could outline any additional progress that has been made on attracting investment and employment into the South Dublin County Council area?

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on current social housing waiting times, including the average time applicants wait before receiving an allocation, with a breakdown by housing type.

To ask the Chief Executive for a list of all housing estates and parks currently undergoing the taking in charge process, together with the current stage reached in that process for each.

To ask the Chief Executive what responsibilities the Council has to ensure tenants in developments managed by Approved Housing Bodies, the Land Development Agency or Owner Management Companies have a fair and transparent opportunity to apply for available car parking spaces, and what arrangements are in place to achieve this.

To ask the Chief Executive would he consider providing community centres bins for waste disposal as in picture to help them meet waste disposal legislation requirements and environmental issues?

To ask the Chief Executive to issue a detailed report into what progress has been made in the review of council buildings and how they will be made available for community use?

To ask the Chief Excecutive what progress has been made to employ someone to act as curator/person for SDCC tourism offerings within the County?

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into SDCC twinning arrangements and how they are maintained in terms of contact?

To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed report into what progress has been made on storage issues for community groups?

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on what role South Dublin County Council has in relation to housing for Ukrainian residents with temporary protection following the ending of state supports including state contracted accommodation.

To ask the Chief Executive what the process is for collection or safe disposal of nitrous oxide cannisters within the community, specifically if they are dumped in residents gardens or on private property.

DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE MADE PUBLIC ROADS

NO BUSINESS

PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES - FOR APPROVAL

(a) Disposal of fee simple in 1A Station Road, Clondalkin, Dublin 22 – GR194.

(b) Disposal of fee simple in 19 Avonbeg Road, Tallaght, Dublin 24.

(c) Disposal of substation site to ESB at Alpine Heights, Clondalkin

(d) Disposal of Land at rear of 4A Esker Cottages, Lucan, Co. Dublin,  K78 K4H1

CHIEF EXECUTIVE'S REPORT - FOR NOTING

(a) Chief Executive's Report

(b) Statistics Report

(c) Finance Report

OUTDOOR ADVERTISING PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF ROOFTOP SOLAR PV AT SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL, COUNTY HALL AND LIBRARY, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24, D24 X0WP  PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF A HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AT CIVIC THEATRE, PARTHALÁN PLACE, BELGARD RD, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN, D24 NWN7 PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF A HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AT RUA RED, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN, D24 KV8N PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF A HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AT CLONDALKIN CIVIC CENTRE, NINTH LOCK RD, CLONDALKIN, DUBLIN 22, D22 E9X5  PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF ROOFTOP SOLAR PV AND HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AT TALLAGHT LEISURE CENTRE, FORTUNESTOWN WAY, TALLAGHT, DUBLIN 24, D24KX38  PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

INSTALLATION OF A HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AND ROOFTOP SOLAR PV ARRAY AT CLONDALKIN LEISURE CENTRE, NANGOR ROAD, CLONDALKIN, DUBLIN 22, D22E283  PART 8 - FOR APPROVAL

HEAVY GOODS VEHICLES WEIGHT RESTRICTION REVIEW UPDATE - FOR NOTING

FILLING OF VACANCY ON THE INTER-LOCAL AUTHORITY SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON FIRE & AMBULANCE SERVICES AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING THE RESIGNATION OF COUNCILLOR L. DUNNE - FOR APPROVAL

COMMUNITY GRANTS - FOR NOTING

REPLIES, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE

Replies

(a) Department of Culture, Communications and Sport - Digital Wallet

(b) Office of An Taoiseach - Reunification of Ireland -M10_0726

Acknowledgements

(c) Acknowledgement from Department of the Taoiseach regarding M10/0726

(d) Acknowledgement from Department of the Taoiseach regarding M09/0726

Correspondence

(e) Correspondence received from Leitrim County Council - 0709 Renewable Energy Projects

(f) Correspondence received from Leitrim County Council - 0710 Dedicated Cabinet Minister for Construction and Infrastructure

(g) Correspondence received from Leitrim County Council - 0711 National Investment to protect and maximise existing social housing stock.

(h) Correspondence received from Carlow County Council

(i) Correspondence received from Carlow County Council

(j) Correspondence received from Louth County Council

(k) Correspondence received from Roscommon County Council - CE Scheme Eligibility

(l)  Correspondence received from Roscommon County Council - Cost Rental Scheme

That this Council calls on the government to start the process for a referendum to be held on the right to a home.

That this Council calls on the government to start the process for a referendum to be held on the right to a home.

That this Council calls on the Chief Executive to develop a new tourism initiative - "The South Dublin Explorer Passport" with the aim of promoting and encouraging visitors to South Dublin attractions and sites and supporting the existing South Dublin tourism strategy which runs to 2029.

That this Council, noting the commitments in the South Dublin County Council Pollinator Action Plan 2026–2030, Biodiversity Action Plan, Green Infrastructure Strategy and Climate Action Plan, and Maynooth University research highlighting the potential of industrial estates, business parks and other enterprise lands to support pollinator corridors and ecological connectivity, calls on the Chief Executive to examine and report on how the Council’s existing biodiversity and pollinator objectives could be extended beyond Council-owned lands through engagement with management companies, employers, landowners and business park operators.

That this Council shall adopt a proactive, sympathetic and facilitative policy towards applications for retention permission in respect of habitable residential accommodation located within the curtilage of an existing dwelling, where that accommodation is in use as a home, and in the exercise of its enforcement discretion under Part VIII of the Planning and Development Act 2000, the Council shall have regard to the acute shortage of housing and to the fact that enforcement against a unit that is functioning as somebody's home removes a dwelling from the county's housing stock at the worst possible moment.

That the Chief Executive reviews the technology currently used to detect and report faulty public streetlights and in line with the Council's ambition to be a more digital Council examines introducing a more streamlined system incorporating automatic fault detection and simple location-based reporting for residents.

That the Chief Executive puts in place a criteria based approach to facilitate a process whereby an evaluation could be carried out on a phased basis, to identify trees of amenity value within the County, starting with those likely to be more at risk, with a view to making them the subject of Tree Preservation Orders or otherwise protecting them, and to furnish information to the public in this regard pursuant to Policy NCBH11 Objective 2 of our County Development Plan.

That this Council agrees that sorting offices are vital community services and calls on An Post and the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, to immediately halt any plans to relocate any sorting offices currently situated in South Dublin County.

That this Council expresses its concern regarding the water demands of data centres and, in light of increasing pressure on water resources, agrees to write to the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and Uisce Éireann seeking a report on: the volumes of water used by data centres; the proportions evaporated and discharged as blowdown water; and the monitoring, treatment and environmental controls in place to ensure that any discharges do not adversely affect public health, water quality or biodiversity.

That this Council writes to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage urging him to complete and publish the long-awaited review of social housing income eligibility thresholds, increase the thresholds without delay, and introduce an index-linked mechanism to ensure they remain up to date in future years.

That this Council writes to the Minister for Transport requesting that the National Driver Licence Service (NDLS) introduce a cash payment option for its services.