Agenda - Lucan-Clondalkin ACM (2) 28th September, 2010
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Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting 22nd June, 2010
Environment
Questions
Could the Manager please arrange for the broken glass to be swept from the footpaths on St. Cuthbert's Road, Clondalkin?
To ask the Manager to report on the ponding of surface water on the industrially zoned lands south of the Grand Canal and west of the R120 and how they might be adequately drained?
To ask the Manager to roll back on its brown bin service in the Clondalkin area? How much money was spent on implementing the bin service, regarding paying for the bins, employment and so on in the Clondalkin area? Does the Manager expect an increase or decrease in the number of users of the bins service over all, including brown / black bins in Clondalkin?
To ask the Manager to report on the availability of land that could facilitate an extension of Esker Cemetery and to outline any future possibility of SDCC acquiring these lands to carry out this extension?
To ask the Manager to report on efforts to keep the general vicinity of Hayden’s Lane Place tidy and free of illegal dumping and illegally-parked vehicles? If this area is left unkempt it will severely take from the attractiveness and perceived safety of the proposed green-route linking Griffeen Valley Park to the Grand Canal?
To ask the Manager to ensure that the laneways and alleyways at the rear of all houses in Melrose, Clondalkin are cleaned by South Dublin County Council staff as a matter of urgency and that residents are informed of how regular future cleaning of the said laneways will be?
To ask the Manager to ensure that the litterbins in Clondalkin Village are emptied regularly by South Dublin County Council staff, particularly at the weekends and during the good weather?
To ask the Manager for a progress report on the maintenance of the bottle banks at SuperValu Palmerstown so that they are no longer an eyesore for local residents?
To ask the Manager for a report on the graffiti situation in Palmerstown, especially but not only in the back lanes (many of which are used by parents and children on the way to and from school, and to include in the report proposals for addressing the situation and the possible time scale?
Headed Items
NEW WORKS
No Business
Noise Mapping
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
No Business
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That this Committee notes that comments and complaints have been made to Councillors over recent months, particularly when water levels in the river were low, about the extent of weeds and overgrown vegetation along the banks of the River Liffey, in the area upstream and downstream of Lucan Bridge, and requests the Manager to present a report on the measures taken by the Council to maintain the river bank along the course of the Liffey in South Dublin County, including removal and control of litter, prevention of polluting discharges into the river and management of the bank itself including vegetation.
That a pilot system be set up in Clondalkin which would encourage people, especially children, to bring various types of litter, to litter collection banks.
That the Manager rolls back the existing brown bin scheme in the Clondalkin area with immediate effect and returns to weekly black bin pickups.
That this Committee, following-on from the on-site meeting at Esker Cemetery requested by me and held on 16th July, recommends that the Manager implement the following much-needed improvement to Esker Cemetery:
- Provision of a permanent caretaker for the cemetery;
- Installation of a water-harvesting system as a means of providing additional water supply points in the newest part of the cemetery;
- Provision of timber fencing and a timber gate around the open rubbish dumps which are currently an eyesore in the cemetery.
That this Committee, noting the importance of involving young people in environmental issues, ask that the Manager install litter bins at strategic points and in close proximity to Pobalscoil Iosolde Palmerstown (as previously requested) and that their be contact made with the school authorities with a view to getting a greater involvement of the students in keeping the school environs litter free, and that business premises in the area that receive the patronage of students maintain the external public space round their premises litter free.
That this Area Committee requests the Manager to treat as a matter of priority the removal of all unauthorised signs, postings, advertisings etc., in public places, including on road ways, traffic lights, public walls etc within the area of this Area Committee. The upsurge in these signs is the cause of serious environmental damages and is undermining the work of this Council and local voluntary groups including Tidy Town Committees, Residents Associations and Environmental Groups.
That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee affirms its support for the Council's publicly managed household bin collection services, with its important features of a waiver system for low income households and no "flat fee charge", will support the efforts of the Manager and the Environmental Services Department to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the service, including measures to remove, as soon as possible, the inequality of service being experienced by households with a Monday Black/Brown Bin collection, and requests the Manager to make a report on the roll out of the Brown Bin Service in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas, and advise on the anticipated situation for households in the area on the October Bank Holiday Monday.
That the Manager presents a report on the possibility of re-organising the Monday bin collections in Lucan/ Clondalkin so that no one will have to wait for as much as 4 weeks to have a black bin lift even when bank holidays occur.
That the Manager address the sewage smell issue at the junction of the new Nangor Road and Ninth Lock Road, Clondalkin. Can some of the money, the €7 million received in exchange for lands where Lidl is now, be used.
That this Committee congratulates the Lucan Tidy Towns group on their result in the 2010 National Tidy Towns contest whereby Lucan Village’s overall marks increased from 269 last year to 276 this year and won the Dublin (South) County award. However while welcoming the improved cleanliness of the Lucan Village area, this Committee again expresses its serious concern over litter problems in the Lucan South area and further to my motion at the April meeting, recommends that a permanent hand-cart service be introduced in the Lucan South area with a primary focus on the areas and roads nearest to the Ballyowen Castle local centre, the Griffeen local centre and Foxborough. This hand-cart service would be of significant benefit in assisting efforts to address the very serious and highly-visible litter problems blighting some of these areas and in particular would be of advantage in allowing for more regular removal of litter from landscaped areas not subject to the regular street-sweeping rota. This Committee therefore requests the Manager to present a detailed report for discussion on how we could progress this proposal with specific reference to the human resources and financial matters involved.
Community
Questions
To ask the Manager if there are any plans to facilitate the hosting of community art or photographic exhibitions in the Lucan area?
To ask the Manager what is the up to date position regarding the planned community centre for Palmerstown?
To ask the Manager for a detailed update on negotiations with the developer of Adamstown SDZ relating to the provision of a Community Aquatic and Sports Complex?
To ask the Manager for a report on efforts to secure the satisfactory completion and hand-over by the developer of the proposed Palmerstown Community Centre, to advise on the works left to be completed by the developer and to outline the likely extent and types of fit-out works to be funded by the council after the formal handover?
Headed Items
NEW WORKS
No Business
APPLICATION FOR GRANTS
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
No Business
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee resolves that, after years of unacceptable delays, it is a priority for this Committee to do everything it can to bring the Palmerstown Community Centre Project to a conclusion before summer 2011, requests the Manager to use all measures open to him, including the commitment of required Council financial and other resources and the planning enforcement powers, if appropriate, available to him to have the required construction and fitting out works implemented, and to ask the Manager to make an updated report on the matter at the September meeting of the ACM.
That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion on the long-awaited and planned Swimming Pool for the Lucan area. In the light of years of effort and representations by the Lucan community and Lucan Public Representatives, including many Motions passed by the Council and Area Committees in pursuit of this water leisure facility, and the Manager's efforts to provide a Swimming Pool for Lucan, that the Manager would report on his most recent efforts and discussions with the Department of Tourism, Culture and Sport and the Department's response to our most recent request for funding through the Swimming Pool Programme, and what alternative initiatives, including possible joint ventures can be explored to deliver a Lucan Swimming Pool.
That this Committee requests the Manager to report on the current availability and future need for appropriate facilities in the Lucan area for the running of training and re-skilling programmes by CPLN Area Partnership and other agencies?
That this Committee re-affirms and will not give up on its commitment to the provision of a public Swimming Pool in Lucan, condemns unequivocally the decision, supported by all the Coalition parties and members including FF, Green and Independent Dáil Deputies representing Lucan, to abandon, after the relevant Government Department had led this Committee and the Council "up the garden path " for years, including the years of the dear departed Celtic Tiger, by giving repeated written replies referring to the re-opening of the Swimming Pool Programme, the scheme of financial support for Local Authority Swimming Pools, recognises that this betrayal of the Lucan Swimming Pool Project, combined with the collapse in Development Levy income to the Council makes it very difficult for the Manager to raise the necessary finance for a Swimming Pool Project, nevertheless requests the Manager to meet with Lucan EA Councillors to discuss and explore any options that might be open to the Council, and the community of Lucan, to bring a Lucan Swimming Pool project to fruition.
That the Manager would agree to commence the process of consultation in pursuit of a Youth Café for Palmerstown, that this community consultation process would include representatives from a group of young adults in Palmerstown that I have been engaging with on this project, the Youth Services, local community groups including Palmerstown Community Council, local schools, St. Philomena's Parish Palmerstown, local traders, and that we would pursue this matter in the interest of a successful outcome similar to that which I pursued and was successfully provided in Lucan in 2008. As part of this project a visit or visits could be arranged for all interested parties to Megabites Youth Café, Griffeen Avenue, Lucan. Such a proactive project as a Palmerstown Youth Café would also have a positive benefit in terms of helping to resolve anti-social behaviour.
That this Area Committee warmly welcomes and supports proposals by Foróige to expand youth services in the Lucan and Palmerstown areas including proposals to open a new Café at Palmerstown Community Sports Hall (in conjunction with both Co. Dublin VEC and Pobalscoil Iosolde) and plans also to open a new Youth Club at Lucan Sports & Leisure Centre at Griffeen Valley Park. This Area Committee furthermore acknowledges the support given to date by the Community Services Department to Foróige including meeting with the organisation’s development officer in July and requests the Department to continue supporting these plans in whatever way possible.
Housing
Questions
To ask the Manager how many applicants are on the housing list for each of the areas of Lucan and Clondalkin?
To ask the Manager how many houses have been allocated to applicants, to date, this year in each of the areas of Lucan and Clondalkin?
To ask the Manager to give a report on monies given to the Council by the Developer in relation to building defects in the Balgaddy area? How much money has been given to date? Does the Council intend to pursue the developer for more monies for compensation in ongoing defects in the quality of materials and housing standards in the Balgaddy area?
To ask the Manager to report on what buildings works have been carried out and what fittings, furniture and equipment have been installed at No’s. 2 and 4 Liscarne Gardens, Clondalkin for the purposes of providing Supported Temporary Accommodation; to advise on the costs of this and to advise on the legal basis for these works and expenditure given the current Part 8 proposal has not been approved?
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the collaborative project between Ronanstown Youth Service and the Housing/Community Departments to provide a Youth Service in two vacant units (intended as shops) in the Council's Balgaddy Development?
Headed Items
NEW WORKS
No Business
Report on Housing Construction Programme
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
Correspondence from Office of the Minister for Housing and Local Services regarding (Item ID 22176) Motion 26 23rd February, 2010:-
"That this Committee condemns the actions of this Government that resulted in over-inflated house prices and following the downturn created a situation whereby countless residents are facing the trap of negative equity. Further, that this committee calls for special consideration from this Council to the residents of Adamstown and similar areas by outlining the options for those who find themselves unable to meet mortgage payments or due to negative equity are trapped in housing that does not meet their needs."
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That this Committee acknowledges that the concerns of residents of the Balgaddy area about the safety of residents, especially children, on the roads in the area, including Balgaddy Road itself and the immediate area around Méile an Rí View and Méile an Rí Crescent, are well based on experience of actual incidents including the recent one involving a child and a car, and requests the Manager to allocate the necessary resources, in the context of implementing the Mayor's Initiative, to implementing traffic management and other measures, along Balgaddy Road and by the installation of bollards to reduce the number of through rotes to Méile an Rí View and Crescent, following appropriate consultation with representatives of residents and An Garda Síochana, to improve pedestrian safety.
That the Manager presents an updated report about 4, Lealand Walk, Clondalkin.
That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee supports the Mayor's Initiative for Balgaddy, believes that the involvement of the Balgaddy Working Together Group and its associate Environmental Group is crucial to the success of the Initiative, and requests the Manager to confirm that the Initiative will continue as the basis for resource provision to Balgaddy, and requests him to provide an update report on actions already taken and a schedule for the implementation of other actions in the initiative.
That the Manager would present figures to this Committee outlining the numbers on the housing lists in the Clondalkin area broken down by 1, 2 or 3 bedrooms.
That the promised cameras for Dunawley Estate, Clondalkin be provided to stop hostile gangs gathering in the area. Residents were promised cameras by senior staff members some time ago.
Corporate & Library Services
Questions
To ask the Manager to write to the ESB to request that a briefing be provided for the elected members of this Committee on matters relating to management and release of water from the Leixlip dam on the River Liffey including: the ESB's role and responsibilities under the Liffey Reservoir Act 1936 and subsequent legislation and the ESB's role in flood risk management along the River Liffey?
To ask the Manager to write to the HSE Dublin West Local Health Office to request an update on plans for the future development of HSE services for residents of the Palmerstown area including the current status of plans to shut the Manor Road clinic?
To ask the Manager if this Committee ever received a response from the Minister for Justice to the motion passed at the December 2009 meeting (item 21140) regarding the need for funding to be made available for new and replacement vehicles for an Garda Síochána; and if not, to ask that fresh correspondence be issued to the Minster again requesting a response to the motion previously passed?
To ask the Manager if consideration has been given to the leasing or acquiring of the former dry-cleaners premises on Manor Road in Palmerstown as the base for the proposed new local library?
To ask the Manager to write to Dublin Bus again requesting that the long promised bus shelters be installed on Kennelsfort Road, Palmerstown without further delay?
That this Committee commends the County Librarian for her efforts to identify a suitable location for the long promised Library/Digital Hub in Palmerstown for residents of the 3000 homes in the area as well as for the extensive staff and persons who are living in or associated with Stewarts Hospital; that she report on progress to date in promoting the library service available at and through Stewarts Hospital and in particular the success in providing, in so far as is possible, the same range of services either in-house or in other suitable local locations, as it does in other branches of the County Library, within the Palmerstown community.
To ask the Manager responsible if there has been a response from the HSE to my motion inviting it to provide a briefing to this Committee on the services provided by the HSE for children with special needs in the area covered by this Committee?
To ask the Manager if he will write to County Dublin VEC, requesting figures for the number of persons who have enrolled, by School/Centre, on the Committee's Programme of Labour Force Activation courses (for persons in receipt of the JS Allowance and whose present qualification is Level 5 or lower) in the Lucan and Clondalkin areas?
To ask the Manager, if he will write to the major supermarket and hardware outlets in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas, encouraging them to stock "compostable" bags which are regarded as suitable for Brown Bins, so that households who do not find it convenient to use paper to wrap food waste and other allowed materials for placing in their Brown Bins have a permitted alternative?
To ask the Manager if he will write to the CPLN Partnership requesting updated information on (1) Education and Training Courses being organised by CPLN Partnership for residents of the Balgaddy Estates and Foxdene and (2) the CPLN's application for funding from Atlantic Philanthropies for a Child and Family Centre in Méile an Rí, Balgaddy?
Headed Items
NEW WORKS
No Business
LIBRARY NEWS & EVENTS
Correspondence
CORRESPONDENCE
Cor (a) Letter from Dublin Bus regarding the new 'Network Direct' plan for Lucan (Item ID 23680)
Cor (b) Letter from Minister for Education & Skills regarding a new school the new acquired site in Lucan (Item ID 24147)
Cor (c) Letter from Dublin Bus regarding bus routes taken by school-going children through Lucan (Item ID 23020)
Cor (d) Letter from Deputy John Curran, Minister of State and Mary Hanafin TD, Minister for Tourism, Culture & Sport regarding Lucan Swimming Pool Project (Item ID 23765)
Cor (e) Letter from Minister for Education & Skills regarding the inclusion of St. Mary's Junior NS, Rowlagh in the Early Start Pre-School Programme (Item ID 24148)
Cor (f) Letter from Mr. Pat Ryan, Department of Social Protection on the qualification levels and employment experience of unemployed people in the Lucan/Clondalkin area (Item ID 22567)
Cor (g) Letter from Office of the Minister for Tourism, Culture & Sport regarding the reopening of the Local Authority Swimming Pool Funding Scheme (Item ID: 23765)
Cor (h) Letter from Private Secretary to Minister Barry Andrews, Minister for Children & Youth Affairs regarding the free pre-school year in the Early Childhood Care & Education Scheme (Item ID 22557)
Cor (i) Letter from Tánaiste Mary Coughlan TD & Minister for Education and Skills regarding the upgrading of the Community Employment Programme (CE) (Item ID: 22579)
Motions
Cathaoirleach's Business
That in view of the very high level of unemployment of young people, under 25 years, in the Lucan- Clondalkin Electoral Areas, the increased level of applications for places in Higher Education Colleges such as IT Tallaght in 2010, this Committee believes the "cap" imposed on the number of PLC places in Further Education Colleges (eg Ballyfermot College of FE could accommodate an additional 200 1st Year students, if it were not prevented in doing so by the "cap") requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education and Skills conveying the view of the Committee that the number of 1st Year PLC places should be immediately increased by 20% in 2010-2011.
That the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee agrees to write to Waterways Ireland
(a) To find out why there is no pedestrian access to the Grand Canal Bank (south side) west of the 12th Lock.
(b) When that pedestrian access will be restored.
That this Committee, in recognition of the need for additional primary schools buildings in the Lucan area as a matter of great urgency, and following numerous motions passed in our Council and at Area Committees, requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education and Skills to request that there be no further delays in the provision of schools buildings for a number of Lucan Primary Schools, including:
Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada
St. Andrew's National School
Esker Educate Together National School.