To ask the Chief Executive if any reply had been received from Minister Coveney to this motion below that was passed in July.

This Council will write to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government Simon Coveney stating that a BIN waiver should be introduced for people with health issues. Over 20,000 people in Ireland suffer from bowel disease and are fitted with a stoma. These people have to use their bin to dispose of these colostomy bag through no fault of their own, and with pay by weight been introduce this will be a big cost to them. There is also many other conditions that people have medical waste that has to be put in the bin and in addition to the waiver, a scheme should be introduced where the HSE provides people registered with stomas or other bowel or bladder diseases with Healthcare Risk Waste bags and cable ties, for controlled disposal, in the interests of Public Health.

• Q12 Bin Waiver for medical waste

"That this Area Committee requests that children at play signs are installed on both sides of the road at the new playspace in Sarsfield Park."

• M15 - Sarsfield Park Play Space
• Slow Zone Sign

That this Council requires that all voluntary housing authorities, who are managing properties and supporting families on behalf of the Council across the County be explicit in their directives and to inform the Council of any changes to those directives with regard to the duration of tenancies; appreciating that the acquisition of units through the NAMA Special Purpose Vehicle (NARPS) in mid-2015 was a pioneering approach to attempt to tackle the housing issues facing the County and noting that 18-months later the same families who were housed from hotel accommodation through this development are facing re-entering hotel and temporary accommodation due to an 18-month maximum tenancy duration directive from the voluntary housing body TUATH. 

"To ask if the Chief Executive has a timeline or plan for the 'taking in charge' of Stocking Wood?

• Q20 Taking in Charge Stocking Wood

"That this Committee agrees that cameras be costed and looked at for the Canal Road between Lindisfarne and Kilcronan and for Harelawn Green in order to try to combat illegal dumping and anti social behaviour."

• M 4

Speed Limit Review Update

• HI 16 - Speed Limit Review Update
• Rural Speed Limit Sign

Update on the Playspace Programme 2014-2018

• HI 13 update on play space programme

"Having consulted with residents, that this Area Committee calls on the Chief Executive to close off the road between 1-2 Rossfield Way as a traffic calming measure."

Co Signed: Cllr Cathal King / Cllr Dermot Richardson.

• Mot (3)

"That this Area Committee calls on the Chief Executive to cut down the hedges and palm trees that are blocking traffic visibility at the Fortunestown roundabout."

• Mot (1)

Any Other Business

Schedule of meetings for 2017

Local Policing Fora Report

JPC Subgroups

Garda Siochana Report

Issues

Agenda

Report of Meeting held on the 23rd September 2016

What are the current arrangements for families who want a mobile home in their council property garden to alleviate overcrowding? 

• Q1 Caravans

That this local authority calls on the Minister for Finance to review the penal interest rates charged to those citizens who chose to defer payment of their Local Property Tax due their age, ability to pay or insolvency and requests that these rates be lowered in accordance with prevailing interest rates.  

• M2 Local Property Tax

"To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the provision of an MUGA (Multi Use Games Area) for the Lucan area including a proposed schedule of public consultation?"

• Q 12 - Provision of MUGA