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To ask the Chief Executive if he would detail the current compliment of staff assigned to the Council's Planning Enforcement function and in reporting will he explain how the current backlog of Planning Enforcements has arisen and confirm actions planned to address this vital area as the current situation is clearly undermining the development control function of this Council.
To ask the Chief Executive to state how many Council houses are currently vacant; will he give details in respect of each electoral area and state what actions are being taken to allow for these vacant houses to be offered to potential tenants.
To ask the Chief Executive to present an updated report on his actions to deal with those families in our County affected by homelessness; will he detail the number of families currently being dealt with by his staff and confirm what steps are being taken to ensure that these families are being facilitated in appropriate accommodation close to the area of their choice.
That this South Dublin County Council calls on the Chief Executive, in noting replies to recent Council questions and motions from this member and other colleagues, regarding the scourge of illegal posters throughout our County and their relatively poor reflection of the County as expressed in the IBAL reports, if he would set out full details of the actions taken by this Council to remove such illegal posters, advertising signs and banners during the last 3 months and if he would also detail in his reply the number of posters, banners and signs removed during this period and the number of fines issued and paid in this same period and the number of prosecutions undertaken in this period and will he make a statement in the matter.
Update on Litter Managment Plan
Update on Litter Managment Plan
Update on Litter Managment Plan.
Ministerial
Letter dated 24th May 2016, from Mr. S. Coveney Minister for the Environment Community & Local Government regarding dog littering offences
Correspondence
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.
To ask the Chief Executive, to provide an update on the number of planning enforcement files currently open; and on progress in reducing the number of planning enforcements files which were reported as open at the time of the December 2015 Council meeting, broken down among those received in the second half of 2015; first half of 2015; 2014; 2013 and pre-2013; and to make a statement on the efforts to further reduce the backlog?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the new programme of cleansing of cycle paths?
To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed update on the planned installation of CCTV at selected burial grounds in the County?
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the Council's programme of cycle training in 2016?
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.
That this Area Committee:
Noting:
- The recent refusal, by An Bord Pleanala, of planning permission for a privately-developed facility at Ballyowen Castle which was to re-house HSE services in Lucan;
- The ongoing need for improved facilities and increased capacity in terms of primary care provision and assessment and therapeutic services for person with disabilities and special needs in the Lucan area, particularly noting its population is in excess of Waterford City;
- The need to enhance community-based care services for the elderly, particularly in the Lucan Village area where there is a higher proportion of older residents;
- The significant local opposition to the proposal (in the context of the Ballyowen Castle planning application) to close the Dispensary Lane Health Centre in Lucan Village;
Proposes:
- The development, to be led by the HSE, of a purpose built Primary Care Centre for Lucan on a greenfield site to include space for assessment and therapeutic services for persons with disabilities and special needs;
- The retention of a satellite centre at Dispensary Lane including public health nursing services for local families and a nurse-led day care services for the elderly;
Resolves to:
- Invite representatives of the HSE (BOTH from the Local Health Office AND Estates function) to meet with members of this Committee to discuss the proposals set-out in this motion;
- Requests the Chief Executive of this Council to assign relevant managers from both the Land-Use Planning and Economic Development directorates to attend this meeting and to support the potential realisation of these proposals, for example through identification, planning designation and/or disposal of an appropriate greenfield site.
That this council condemns the extortionate increases in bin charges by waste management companies, and calls on the Minister for Environment to intervene on behalf of the people.'
Minutes from Tallaght Area Committee Meeting 23rd May, 2016.
New Works (No Business)
New Works (No Business)