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This committee calls on the manager to review the condition of the footpaths on Main Street and revert with a comprehensive plan to upgrade the footpaths in the village, with particular attention to the sloping and slippery sections opposite The Mall. The plan should also address other problematic areas, such as the sloped footpaths adjacent to Staggs Bicycle Shop, which present significant challenges for individuals with mobility issues. These upgrades are essential to ensure safe and accessible walking conditions for all residents and visitors.
That this Area Committee requests a full discussion and review of the running and management structure of Brú Chrónáin (Round Towers Visitor's centre) aside from the food offering that involves local elected members. We also request a headed item (three times a year) is brought to this committee with regular updates so elected members can feed into the running of the centre. We recognise Brú Chrónáin as a jewel in the Crown of Clondalkin and we want to explore and develop further tourism potential and ideas for our area.
To ask the Chief Executive how SDCC intend meeting COS5 SLO 4: To provide Newcastle Village with community areas and space to hold community events, a Village Plaza and what progress has been made on this objective?
That this Area Committee calls on SDCC for clarity around
''NCBH21 SLO 1: To protect and maintain the remaining old stone walls of Clondalkin" and what walls it covers and calls on SDCC to ensure that the walls on Monastery Road, Boot Rood, ARAS, Watery Lane and Floraville are included as part of this to ensure that we also meet EDE20 Objective 2: To support the development of local tourist and heritage trails and EDE11 Objective 4: To protect the historic village core of Clondalkin, recognising the role it has in placemaking and the attractiveness of the town to retailing and other functions. A list of walls of Clondalkin was provided to SDCC at time of Motion at CDP.
"This Area Committee requests that this council provide some sort of lighting at the playground in Kilnamanagh to deter anti social behaviour?"
That this Area Committee agrees that as three street trees have been blown down on Willow Avenue in Clondalkin during Storms Darragh and Eowyn, and that the roots of streets trees on the road appear to the naked eye to have exposed roots, that an arborists is sent to reexamine the remaining street trees there to establish how they might weather the next storm.
That this Area Committee review of trees planted in Willow Avenue Clondalkin due to safety issues and frequent damage due to trees being uprooted several times in the last year.
That this committee asks South Dublin County Council to change its policy when awarding building contracts to include investigations into past contract infringements, or actions beyond the scope of the contract, and weigh these up when awarding new contracts.
That this Area Committee ask the Council to contact Teagasc and ask them to investigate the felling of the saplings and the mature Beech trees in Coláiste Chilliain without a license and why the saplings were not replanted in another location https://www.teagasc.ie/crops/forestry/advice/general-topics/felling-of-trees---legal-requirements/. If the contractors acted contrary to the law, reparations should be made to Stepping Stone.
That this Council agrees to write to the Minister for Health to express the Council's full support for Section 39 organisations and staff, including support for any industrial action workers decide to take, and call on the Minister to restore full pay parity to these workers.
That this Council writes to the Taoiseach and the President of the INMO, endorsing the INMO nurses and Midwives who have voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action in response to unsafe staffing levels
That this area committee asks for tennis courts to be included in the LAP for Clondalkin.
To ask the Chief Executive which department of SDCC is responsible for repairing the section of the boundary wall between the cul-de-sac of Kilcronan Grove and Kilmahuddrick which is broken?
5. AOB
3. Draft SPC Work Plan – Paul Fusco
2. Introduction to SPC and Overview of Standing Orders – Chair
To ask the Chief Executive what the average response time is to emails received to the info@sdublincoco.ie and on average the number of emails received to this account per month - for 2024 and 2025.
To ask the Chief Executive how many households presented as homeless in SDCC in 2024 due to eviction by a private landlords, including how many of those were HAP or Homeless HAP tenancies?
To ask the Chief Executive to provide details of how many tenant-in-situ acquisitions were not progressed in 2024 due to properties being over- or under-occupied?
CONFIRMATION AND REAFFIRMATION OF MINUTES - FOR APPROVAL
January Council Minutes - 13th January 2025