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Housing Delivery Action Plan
Housing Delivery Report
Minutes of meeting held 14th May 2026
Matters Arising
Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty
To ask the Chief Executive for an update on what role South Dublin County Council has in relation to housing for Ukrainian residents with temporary protection following the ending of state supports including state contracted accommodation.
To ask the Chief Executive whether the Council will review the documentation requirements for people who are sofa surfing and seeking access to homeless HAP or emergency accommodation, particularly where obtaining confirmation from property owners or landlords may not be feasible.
To ask the Chief Executive how many families, couples, single men and single women granted permission to remain in the State following residence in IPAS have, since 2020, been provided with emergency accommodation or allocated social housing by South Dublin County Council, with the information provided in tabular form by year and demographic category.
To ask the Chief Executive for a list of all housing estates and parks currently undergoing the taking in charge process, together with the current stage reached in that process for each.
To ask the Chief Executive to examine the provision of appropriate wayfinding signage for sports clubs, community organisations and facilities throughout the County identifying where signage is currently lacking and how a programme of improved wayfinding signage could be progressed.
To ask the Chief Executive for an update on the installation of signage recognising the Gold, Silver and Bronze medal achievements of Tidy Towns groups within South Dublin County confirming which areas received medals, which have had the appropriate signage installed and which remain outstanding including the expected timeframe for completion.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report detailing, for each of the past two years, the number of public lighting faults identified through the Council's monitoring system and the number first reported by members of the public, together with the average time taken from detection or report to repair in each category.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report on current social housing waiting times, including the average time applicants wait before receiving an allocation, with a breakdown by housing type.
That the Chief Executive reviews the technology currently used to detect and report faulty public streetlights and in line with the Council's ambition to be a more digital Council examines introducing a more streamlined system incorporating automatic fault detection and simple location-based reporting for residents.
To ask the Chief Executive if it is incongruous that social housing tenants of AHBs do not have access to the SDCC Housing Welfare social workers?
That the Chief Executive puts in place a criteria based approach to facilitate a process whereby an evaluation could be carried out on a phased basis, to identify trees of amenity value within the County, starting with those likely to be more at risk, with a view to making them the subject of Tree Preservation Orders or otherwise protecting them, and to furnish information to the public in this regard pursuant to Policy NCBH11 Objective 2 of our County Development Plan.
To ask the Chief Executive to outline the council's policy and criteria for the provision of 30 km/h speed limit signage in residential estates, including at estate entrances and busy internal junctions, in light of the wider introduction of 30 km/h speed limits in urban and residential areas.
To ask the Chief Executive for a report detailing the number of people in homeless accommodation within the South Dublin County Council area at the end of each of the last five years, together with the number of vacant homeless accommodation spaces available at each year-end.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the current number of vacant council owned homes broken down by Local Electoral Area.
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a list of the council owned buildings where the council provide free female sanitary products and bins.