Headed Items
a) Minutes of Meeting of South Dublin County Council, 6th April 2009
(circulated herewith)
b) Minutes of Development Plan Meeting, 20th April 2009
(circulated herewith)
c) Minutes of Adjourned Development Plan Meeting, 30th April 2009
(circulated herewith)
REPORT OF AREA COMMITTEES
a) Report of Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (1) - 7th April 2009
Dealing with Roads, Planning, Development & Parks, Corporate Services & Libraries
(no reports)
b) Report of Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (2) - 7th April 2009
Dealing with Community, Environment, Housing
(no reports)
c) Report of Tallaght Area Committee (1) - 27th April 2009
Dealing with Environment, Community, (1 report - Community Grants), Housing
(circulated herewith)
d) Report of Tallaght Area Committee (2) - 27th April 2009
Dealing with Roads, Planning, Development & Parks, Corporate Services & Libraries
(no reports)
e) Report of Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee (1) - 15th April 2009
Dealing with Development & Parks, Planning, Housing, Roads
(no reports)
f) Report of Lucan Clondalkin Area Committee (2) - 28th April 2009
Dealing with Environment, Community (1 Report - Community Grants), Corporate Services & Libraries
(circulated herewith)
g) Report of Terenure/Rathfarnham Area Committee (2) - 7th May 2009
Dealing with Community, (1 Report - Community Grants), Environment, Housing
(circulated herewith)
STANDING COMMITTEES - ORGANISATION, PROCEDURE AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
(no report)
STRATEGIC POLICY COMMITTEES
a) Arts, Culture, Gaeilge. Education and Libraries Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting held 27th April 2009
(ii) Minutes of Meeting held 23rd February 2009
(circulated herewith)
b) Economic Development (incl planning and Development) Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting held 28th April 2009
(ii) Minutes of Meeting held 18th February 2009
(circulated herewith)
c) Sports, Recreation, Community and Parks Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Meeting held 29th April 2009
(ii) Minutes of Meeting held 11th February 2009
(circulated herewith)
d) Environment Strategic Policy Committee
(i) Report of Special Strategic Policy Committee held 30th March 2009
(circulated herewith)
REPORTS REQUESTED BY AREA COMMITTEES
(no report)
Questions
To ask the Manager for an update on when brown bin collections are going to be initiated in South County Dublin?
To ask the Manager for an update on when the new system of paying (the microchip) for grey bin collections is going to start?
To ask the Manager for a report on the rollout of the Brown Bin service across the county including the timescale to complete the provision of the service in each area?
To ask the Manager what plans are in train to increase the number of allotment plots available in the county and would he make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to detail the SDCC policy regarding community gardening and would he make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager how much was received in income from the development levy that is paid with planning permission during each of the last five years ?
Headed Items
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
Hunters Road and Old Court Road (part of).
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES
a) Proposed Disposal of Affordable Dwellings
b) Proposed Sale of Fee Simple Interest at 28 Balrothery Estate, Tallaght, D.24
c) Proposed disposal of plot of land adjacent to dwelling at 142 St. Maelruan’s Park, Tallaght, Dublin 24 – Variation of terms
CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY
ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMIT) BYE-LAWS 2009
PALMERSTON PLEBISCITE
3 YEAR CAPITAL PROGRAMME
(for noting)
VARIATION TO COUNTY DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF TAY LANE
STATUTORY AUDIT REPORT ON ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENT 2007
DRAFT ANNUAL REPORT 2008
Correspondence
Longford Town Council Motion on Rural Development Programme
Shannon Town Council Motion on Primary Class Sizes.
Galway City Council Motion on Private Rented Properties.
Reply from HSE regarding Funding of Disability and Mental Services
Reply from HSE re Tallaght Hospital
New Ross Town Council Motion on Planning & Development Acts
Motions
That the Manager write to the Minister for Environment and Local Government calling on him to introduce a refundable charge on drinks containers (glass bottles, plastic bottles and cans) to prevent pollution of our environment and to create a safe environment for children at play. Broken glass strewn in our parks and on playing fields are a serious health hazard to members of our community. In decades past there was a refundable charge on lemonade bottles and the scheme was very successful.
That this Council notes the Council's draft Climate Change Policy document, in particular the lack of emphasis given to adaptation issues, requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government seeking information on progress by his Department in producing a National Policy on Adaptation for Climate Change, as promised in the Government's White Paper on Climate Change, and recommends that in the period available for the completion of the Council's policy the draft document be amended to include sections on adaptation, in accordance with best practice policies and actions implemented in other countries by local and regional governments.
That the Manager present a report on the cost of the Corporate Image Change to the Council.
That the Manager produce a report on ways whereby rents in privately owned houses occupied by people on our Council's housing waiting list could be reduced.
That the Manager initiate the process to make Bye Laws pursuant to Section 199 of the Local Government Act 2001, to control the use of off-road motor vehicles (including particularly scrambler motorcycles, mini-mopeds and motorised quads etc.) in the Dublin Mountain Zone within South Dublin, with particular reference to those parts that are either subject to designations under the EU Habitats directive, the Wildlife Acts, or are in use wholly or in part for recreational or amenity purposes such as walking and hiking trails, horse riding trails, forestry areas and unenclosed mountain commonage, and any other amenity or recreational area of the county that the Manager may consider appropriate, and that the process be undertaken as a matter of urgency, due to the risk to public safety, the loss of amenity value due to noise, pollution, erosion etc., and serious ecological damage to protected and designated areas or wildlife from the current widespread unregulated use of off-road motor vehicles in sensitive upland areas of South Dublin, and that in conjunction with the making of such Bye Laws the Manager shall support any appropriate initiative of the Dublin Mountains Partnership in regard to the provision of sustainable facilities for the regulated or supervised use of off-road motor vehicles (including particularly scrambler motorcycles, mini-mopeds and motorised quads etc.) and the Manager shall encourage and assist the Dublin Mountains Partnership in bringing forward proposals in this regard at the earliest opportunity.
That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion on what new facilities have been sourced by this Council that would provide the residents of this county with outdoor recreational and sporting opportunities that are also less conducive to anti-social behaviour and vandalism? There are newer and more innovative such fittings for parks that could be explored on a pilot basis and that may prove to be successful and beneficial to all our people.
That this Council calls on the Manager, when signing agreements with Voluntary Housing Associations states that no more than 15% of tenants income will be payable for rent taking into consideration the Council's differential rent scheme only charges 10% of tenants income and as some Associations are currently charging as much as 20% rent which is placing a disproportionate burden on those tenants, who applied for housing under the same scheme as Council tenants.
That the Manager write to Revenue and the Finance Ministry to copy the US approach by seeking out residents holding Swiss bank accounts in an effort to minimise tax evasion. Any monies recouped could then be ring fenced into a Community Project Fund to which Local Authorities, including South Dublin, could apply for funds to develop local projects?
That this Council calls on the Minister for Transport, Mr. Dempsey to instruct the Taxi Regulator to suspend the issuing of licences with immediate effect.
That this Council review the way it charges rates on registered small playgroups who work from their homes, in that they charge the same as large crèches. Also could the rate be also reviewed on the downward trend in house valuations?
That the Manager agrees to expedite the playground program to bring it back on schedule.
That this Council concerned at the decline and the long term viability of sustainable jobs in the taxi industry and recent information emerging from drivers using the Square,Tallaght that suggests that many are working on and below the minimium wage on a regular basis, agrees to call on the Minister for Environment John Gormley TD to immediately intervene to halt the decline and take affirmative action to support Taxi drivers.
That this Council asks the Minister for Finance to remove any directors holding more than one directorship on state bodies / semi state bodies. Directors must also declare ALL interests in both private and public sectors. That the number of directors be capped to 5 and that the number of semi state bodies be reduced by half.
That the Manager report on what better arrangements can be made for household refuse collection “black wheelie bins” on bank holiday Mondays. Residents who are scheduled for bin collection on Mondays have no collected for two weeks leaving them with a problem of an accumulation of waste.