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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor F. Timmons
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into what new roads will be built in the next 5 years to ease traffic congestion within our towns and villages in the county and to provide a timeline and estimated cost for same?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor F. Timmons
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

To ask the Chief Executive for a report in to what SDCC pay to private bin company's to collect the County rubbish and what the cost is to the taxpayer via our property tax, to include as much information as possible?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor F. Timmons
Responsibility:
Maire O'Sullivan

''That this Area Committee ask the Chief Executive to issue a full and detailed report to explain why it has taken so long for 'repairs' into the Clondalkin Boardwalk.  Bearing in mind this issue was highlighted by the Tidy Towns National adjudicator a few times and raised at previous ACMs. What is the delay and when will work be finished? What has been the costs involved in the Boardwalk and its repairs?  Also that this Committee asks for a commitment timeframe of when the work will be completed?" 

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor F. Timmons
Responsibility:
Irenie McLoughlin, Hazel Craigie

"To ask the Chief Executive for a full and detailed report into Clondalkin as a designated Architectural Conservation Area as per the South Dublin County Council Development Plan. What efforts are being made by South Dublin County Council to ensure Clondalkin remains as an Architectural Conservation Area?  What buildings and walls are protected around the village area?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor William Priestley
Responsibility:
A//Director of Housing, Social & Community Development

To ask the Chief Executive whether any structure is in place to assist the first wave of couples who partook in the Affordable Housing Scheme (2009) to secure enlarged homes now that their families have predictably expanded.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor A. Edge
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change, E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive what information is provided by the Council to contractors concerning the impact of works carried out on biodiversity and whether there exists in those contracts a term concerning the need to avoid negatively impacting on biodiversity.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Brian Keaney

To ask the Chief Executive to provide an update on the feasibility study to find a route for a proposed looped greenway through Lucan village.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
David Fennell

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the installation of electronic gate at the entrance to Griffeen Valley Park at Hayden's Lane

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

To ask the Chief Executive to outline the number of trees felled in the County by this Local Authority in the last 12 months and to detail the numbers felled per local electoral area

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive to detail the number of parking fines issued throughout the County in the last 12 month and to provide a breakdown of the fines per electoral area.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Brian Hora

That this Area Committee noting this Local Authorities continued commitment to the promotion of Health & Wealth being and the unique position of Lucan bordering two other local authorities, asks the Chief Executive to contact our neighbouring local authorities of Fingal and Kildare to discuss the viability of an annual road race passing through all 3 local authorities.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor A. Edge
Responsibility:
A//Director of Housing, Social & Community Development

That the Chief Executive, in light of the recent rent increase affecting some of the poorest in the county, ensures that the accelerated maintenance programme is expedited and that priority is given to those households with older residents and residents with medical conditions and to prepare a report.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Deputy M. Ward
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

That this Council calls on the Irish Government to immediately plan for a United Ireland and furthermore to ask the Minister to call on the British Secretary of State to set a date for a border poll on Irish Unification

14/10/2019 - At the October Council meeting the above motion was amended as follow:s

That this Council calls on the Irish Government to immediately plan for a United Ireland and furthermore noting the principal of consent enshrined in the Good Friday Agreement to ask the Minister to engage with the British Secretary of State proposals in relation to how a date for a border poll would be agreed. And that the government produce a White Paper on Irish Unity.

Headed Item
Meeting:
Submitted by:
C AC Meeting Administrator
Responsibility:
C AC Meeting Administrator

Confirmation & Re-affirmation of Minutes of Meeting of 18th September, 2019

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor A. Edge
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

That this Council will commit to move towards a County-wide voluntary ban on election posters and, as a first step, will agree here and now to limit voluntarily the number of posters to one hundred per candidate per Local Electoral Area and to refrain from erecting posters in areas zoned rural, and that the Environmental SPC be asked to identify suitable designated postering areas with a view to limiting all future election postering to one such area per LEA.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor K. Mahon
Responsibility:
A//Director of Housing, Social & Community Development

This Council commits to maintain the current Rent Differential Rate for Local Authority tenants at 10% and the continuation of the €10 per household discount for Local Authority tenants aged over 65, for the term of this Council.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Johansson
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

This Council agrees that carbon tax is not the answer to tackle climate change. Carbon tax is a regressive tax. It targets the wrong people and does not challenge the real cause of carbon emissions. This Council calls for a stoppage of any implementation of a new carbon tax and calls for immediate action on investment in renewable energy, public transport and a stop to licences issued to extract fossil fuels. 

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Duff
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

In view of the number of Post Primary schools in our County and the number of additional schools planned, and taking into account the amount of Section 29 Appeals for refusal to enrol that are going through the DDLEB and the DES, owing to the amount of parents or guardians that are missing application dates or acceptance dates, for Post Primary Schools, due to varying forms of notices of when this process starts and finishes, that this Council calls on the Minister of Education and Skills, to introduce a national registration period, applicable to every Post Primary School, in an effort to ensure that each potential pupil is given a fair and equal chance to enrol at the appropriate time, in the school of their choice.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

That we write to the Minister for defence also An Taoiseach asking that the long over due medals for gallantry and distinguished service specifically for the Irish soldiers of “A” Company who served at Jadotville in 1961 be awarded. These medals were promised by former Taoiseach Enda Kenny in his final days in Office and still they have not been received.

Headed Item
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Performance & Change Management
Responsibility:
Performance & Change Management

New Works (No Business)