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CONFIRMATION AND RE-AFFIRMATION OF MINUTES
a) Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 8th December 2008
b) Minutes of Annual Budget Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 27th November 2008
(circulated herewith)
REPORT OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (1) - 2nd December 2008
Dealing with Roads, Planning, Development and Corporate Services
(no report)
b) Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (2) - 9th December 2008
Dealing with Community, Parks, Environment and Housing
(no report)
c) Tallaght Area Committee (1) - 1st December 2008
Dealing with Community, Parks, Environment and Housing
(no report)
d) Tallaght Area Committee (2) -15th December 2008
Dealing with Roads, Planning, Development and Corporate Services
(no report )
e) Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee (1) - 3rd December 2008
Dealing with Planning, Development, Corporate Services (1 Report - Proposed Plebiscite for PALMERSTON / PALMERSTOWN), Roads (1 Report - Proposal to name the Road from Fonthill Road to New Road as Caldbeck Way)
(circulated herewith)
f) Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee (2) - 16th December 2008
Dealing with Community (1 Report - Community Grants) , Parks, Environment and Housing
(circulated herewith)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
(no report)
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
(no report)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(no report)
Questions
To ask the Manager can he supply his updated list of his priority footpath programme?
To ask the Manager can he outline what monies have been spent on signage including poles etc by this Council per year over the last 5 years by this Council?
To ask the Manager will he suppply a detailed report outlining the financial or any other implications involved for this Council in implementing the new Building Energy Requirment regulations that are being introduced by the Department of Environment?
To ask the Manager will he outline the specific grounds where a family or individual can attain an emergency transfer on the grounds of being subject to anti social behaviour from this Council's Housing Department?
To ask the Manager will he outline how many transfers have been agreed by this Council to individuals or families on the grounds of being subjected to intolerable abuse and anti social behaviour in the last 12 months?
To ask the Manager in view of difficulties in the past, if a suitable premises has been identified to store lifts and other appliances for people with severe impairments that have been removed by this Council following the death of a tenant in Council housing?
To ask that the Manager present a report on the cost of the Cultural Centre and how this compares with the initial projected cost?
To ask the Manager to present a report on the cost of the library construction/refurbishment, to include the public art piece to the south of the building?
To ask the Manager to present a report on the ownership of the building in which the refurbished library is housed?
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
(no report)
EXTINGUISHMENTS OF PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY
a) At Rear of 58/62 & 63/68 Balrothery Estate, Tallaght
b) At Killeen Road, Clondalkin
(circulated herewith)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES
(circulated herewith)
Disposal of Affordable Homes
DRAFT REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN
(circulated herewith)
RAISING OF LOANS FOR 2009
(circulated herewith)
AUTHORISATION OF OVER-EXPENDITURE 2008
(circulated herewith)
Correspondence
Ministerial
Letter dated 19th December 2008 from the Minister for Social & Family Affairs, regarding SDCC’s letter in relation to the National Carers’ Strategy.
Letter, dated 10th November 2008 from Macroom Town Council regarding motion passed calling on the Government to reverse education cut-backs as announced in the Budget.
Letter, dated 10th December 2008 from South Tipperary County Council regarding motion passed calling on the Government to implement the school vaccination programme for twelve year old girls.
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MAYOR'S BUSINESS
That South Dublin County Council considers initiatives for the forthcoming European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 with particular reference to goal number 3 of the year which is “cultural diversity as a source of creativity and innovation".
(report to follow)
Motions
That the Manager undertakes to develop a section of www.sdcc.ie for children, to have links to this section of the site featured prominently on the homepage of www.sdcc.ie and to create as much interactivity as possible within it in order to engage, educate and encourage as much participation by children as possible as well as promoting active citizenship from an early age. This is to be created in addition to the development of the "Skids" section of the Libraries website.
That the Council agrees on a policy of naming roundabouts in the County for ease of reference for motorists and commuters and visitors to each area.
That this Council agrees to instruct the Manager to treat as a priority, the resolution of the licence/ lease issue for Community projects in the South Dublin County Council area and can he give an updated and detailed report on the exact reasons, per project, for the long years of delay in releasing these vital documents.
That this Council deplores the announcement by Minister Martin Cullen, in a written reply to a Dail Question on 24 September regarding the Government's Local Authorities Swimming Pools Programme, that "it is not intended to launch a new Programme at this time", condemns the delaying tactics used by the present Government in its responses to queries from this Council about the Programme, and requests the Manager to make a statement on the consequences for the Council's Water Leisure Strategy, and the Council's plans to build a swimming pool in Lucan, of the Government's decision not to launch a new Programme, in contradiction to repeated indications to this Council about the imminent re-opening of the Programme.
That this Council liaise with the three other Local Authorities in the Dublin Area to introduce (a) transitional accommodation for Traveller Families and (b) emergency accommodation for Traveller Families who for legitimate reasons find themselves in a homeless situation.
That South Dublin County Council supports the introduction of by-laws or other measures which would ensure that circuses which use wild animals are prohibited from performing in any part of South Dublin County, in light of the well-documented evidence of suffering endured by the animals involved and the serious animal welfare issues raised.
That this Committee recommends that single people, male and female, be permitted to go on South Dublin County Council's housing lists.
That this Council discusses mapping of the SDCC areas with particular reference to areas vulnerable to flooding and to state what action has been taken on this issue to date.
That the Manager investigates complaints regarding environmental pollution at Behan's Quarry off the N7, including:
(1) silt deposits from the quarry on to the N7 creating dust clouds across the carriageway, and
(2) dust pollution from trucks exiting the quarry where truck loads are not covered by tarpaulin or similar pollution preventing methods resulting in dust clouds across the carriageway.
That this Council ask the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to strenghten the powers of Local Authorities to deal with anti - social behaviour.
That this Council introduce a tree pruning and removal programme similar to the scheme which was implemented for footpath repairs. Such a programme would provide much needed clarity to all local residents and groups in the County who have no idea from year to year if the requests they have made in relation to overgrown and sometimes dangerous trees will ever be dealt with.
That South Dublin County Council agrees to the immediate introduction of by-laws or other measures to prohibit circuses which use wild animals from performing on any land within its jurisdiction as have Fingal and Dun-Laoghaire/Rathdown County Councils
That this council seeks a high profile and well resourced hotline that will be dedicated for the reporting of littering offences.
That this Council calls on the Manager to investigate the establishment of an outreach service in conjunction with NGO’s and State Agencies to inform Senior Citizens from the South Dublin County Council area of grants and other entitlements that are available to them and many administered by this Council.
That SDCC appoint an Area Manager to each of the administrative areas within the county. A primary function of this manager would be to co-ordinate the functions of the various internal departments to ensure that works are planned and delivered as a project - with consistent and predictable levels of quality and service. This person would be a single point of contact for work-in-progress within that area.
That this Council supports the demand of the Disability Federation of Ireland that the Government and the Health Services Executive provide adequate monies for the funding of disability and mental health services, specifically that the Government cancels the proposed 1% cut proposed in Budget 2009, that the HSE restore the 1% cut being implemented in 2008 and re-assign the €70 million redirected by it in 2007 and 2008 back to disability and mental health, and that the Government puts in place measures to ensure that the HSE cannot unilaterally remove disability and mental health funding allocated to it by Government, and requests the Manager to write to the Ministers for Finance and Health and Children and the Chief Executive Officer of the HSE conveying the views of this Council.
That the Manager write to the Minister for the Environment requesting that he set up a joint working group composed of representatives of both the elected members and management of South Dublin, Fingal, Kildare and Dublin City Councils, with the objective of actioning the recommendations of the EMS Report on the Liffey Valley (given that the OPW have indicated that they are not to coordinate the work of promoting a Liffey Valley National Park).
That this Council agrees to the introduction of a pilot scheme to provide 'children at play' signs to local residents associations without charge. Such a scheme could include a limit per year on the number of signs and an equal division throughout the County. The current situation where communities with greater wealth can easily afford to pay for such signs which the Council then erects without charge is manifestly unfair, as other communities with equal or greater need, but who cannot afford to buy the signs, are left with their children facing greater risks when playing in their area.
That the Council, in the context of the ongoing Lisbon debate, fully utilises its designated member of staff charged with European Responsibilities, and, through discussions at CPG level and among party leaders, considers the option of using existing meeting headings and structures to regularly and formally inform members of developments at European Union level which directly affect the work and policies of the local authority
That this Council will explore the possibility of locating a viewing point amenity, in the Dublin Mountains, that will serve as point of significant interest within our county.