Agenda - Tallaght ACM (1) 21st September, 2009

Minutes from Tallaght ACM 18th May, 2009.

• Minutes 18th May 2009

"To ask the Manager to undertake a rapid review of the condition of the areas surrounding all Traveller Accommodation developments in the Tallaght area with a view to definitively addressing environmental issues such as unfinished landscaping, damaged landscaping, dumping etc. and to present this report to the next relevant meeting of the Tallaght area committee?"

• Q 1

"To ask the Manager to clarify the position regarding applications on the housing lists which specified a preference for areas in the old Terenure-Rathfarnham area, as per the 2008 revision of local electoral areas, given that much of that area is now located in the Tallaght Central LEA?"

• Q. 2

Report on housing construction programme

• H 2 Housing Construction Programme

Leasing of Unsold Affordable Units for Social Housing Use.

• Affordable Leasing

CORRESPONDENCE

Cathaoirleachs Business

This Committee calls on the Manager to give a report in view of the financial difficulties being experienced by the Council on how it is directly affecting the turn over of boarded up houses, transfers and allocations in the Tallaght area and how he proposes to deal with these difficulties.

• M 1

That the Manager outline the steps being taken by the Housing Department to address the enormous backlog due to increase in Housing applications with regard to the Tallaght area.

• M 2

"To ask the Manager to report on the progress and challenges facing the Tallaght Leisure Centre in terms of footfall etc?"

• Q. 3

Application for Grants (if any)

• Headed Item No. H-I(4)

NEW WORKS

CORRESPONDENCE

Cathaoirleachs Business

This Council Committee calls on the Manager to give a report outlining the possible effect of the withdrawal of Jobs Initiative workers on Community Projects in the Tallaght Committee Area and can he outline if any assessment has been carried by his Department regarding this proposal. 

• M 3

That this Committee condemns any move by the government to abolish JI/CE schemes within Tallaght given the proven immense value of these schemes in terms of community enhancement and development.

• M 4

That this Committee requests the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht affairs to give a commitment to maintain the West Tallaght RAPID programme given its outstanding success to date and the potential disastrous consequences to the community it serves if removed.

• M 5

"To ask the Manager to give an indication of when the new payment system for bin collection should be in place, in order to alleviate concerns of residents in the Tallaght area who are entitled to waivers, given the difficulties with issuing tags etc. in these cases?"

• Q.4 Electronic Credit & Waivers

"To ask the Manager to give a total of the expenditure of this Council on cleansing areas both by the Parks Department and the Environmental Services Department within the Tallaght area due to illegal dumping and fly tipping to date for 2009 and to give some examples of what possible resources the Council has lost due to this loss of revenue?"

• Q.5 Clean Up Costs

"To ask the County Manager if he will respond to a request to have a seat installed at Bohernabreena Cemetery, as requested by a person  *details supplied, and if he will investigate the reasons for the delay in responding to this request, to date?"

• Q 6 Installation of Bench - Bohernabreena Cemetery

To ask the Manager to give an update on the rollout of the new chip-based refuse collection service ('grey bins') in the Tallaght Central and Tallaght South areas, and to confirm if sites have been selected for pilot projects in either area.

• Q.7 Electronic Credit

"To ask the Manager to respond to complaints made on Whitehall Road, Kimmage, Dublin 12 regarding the use of the green at the entry to Priory Walk at what would seem to be a depot for Council machinery and does he agree that this practice should discontinue?"

• Q 8 Flood Alleviation Works Whitehall Road

Adoption of the Eastern River Basin District (ERBD) Plan

• Eastern River Basin Management Plan
• Eastern River Basin Programme of Measures
• ERBD Compliance Report 2009
• ERBD Executive Summary:South Dublin 2009
• ERBD Submissions Digest Report 2009
• H 6 ERBD Managers Report
• H 6 Presentation by Project Co-Ordinator

NEW WORKS

CORRESPONDENCE

Cathaoirleachs Business

(None received)

That this Committee deplores the littered state of many of the laneways in the Dublin 12 area of the County, many of which have served as the location for significant acts of 'fly-tipping' in recent months and years; that the Committee seeks further resourcing of the litter warden and inspection services with regard to this dangerous and antisocial practice; and that the Committee asks the Manager to prepare a report on the possibility of a Community Employment or other scheme which would engage local people in laneway cleaning and upkeep as an addition to the existing environmental services.

• M.7 Laneways

That the Manager outlines the savings to the Council in the Tallaght area through the removal of weekend bin collections when bank holidays occur.

• M.8 Bank Holiday Bin Collections