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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Sean O'Hara, Laura Leonard

To ask the Chief Executive to confirm the amount of development levies collected by this Local Authority, specifically for the provision of water services since the 1st of January 2012?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Paul Fleming

To ask the Chief Executive if any mortgage has been granted by this Local Authority to assist in the purchase of homes in the County since the 1st January 2012 and if so to quantify the number of mortgages granted?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Mary Maguire

To ask the Chief Executive to quantify the number of water leaks dealt with by this Local Authority in the past 12 months and the number of times any such leak reoccurred having been attended to by the Local Authority.

Correspondence
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Community Directorate
Responsibility:

MINISTERIAL

Letter from the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, dated 31st March 2015, re national monument in Moore St.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Billy Coman

That this County Council put proposals to the Minister for the Environment to further regulate the private residential property sector having particular regard to the current lack of certainty surrounding levels of rent and landlords ability to alter agreed rents, in an effort to encourage a more settled rental housing sector to the benefit of this Local Authority.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Billy Coman

That this County Council put proposals to the Minister for the Environment to further regulate the private residential property sector having particular regard to the current lack of certainty surrounding levels of rent and landlords ability to alter agreed rents, in an effort to encourage a more settled rental housing sector to the benefit of this Local Authority.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Brendan Curran

"To ask the Chief Executive to commence work, in cooperation with Irish Water, to attend to ongoing flooding and drainage issues and general disrepair of the piece of road between Lucan Heights and the R835 Lucan/Dublin Road?"

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor R. McMahon
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"That the Council to provide small litter bins at the main entrances, exits and car Parks to the River Dodder Linear Park in the area - for small litter and more importantly for dog poo bags."

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor L. Dunne
Responsibility:
Hugh Hogan

To ask the Chief Executive, to write to the Dublin Central Placement Service to ask if hostels that are being used to accommodate the homeless are regurarly being inspected? In addition to ask how many of them have health and safety statements? 

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor L. Dunne
Responsibility:
Hugh Hogan

To ask the Chief Executive, on average how many individuals present to the homeless unit in SDCC? In addition, on average, how many can't be accommodated and are asked instead to contact the homeless free phone number?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Ó Broin
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That this Committee request the Chief Executive to present a report for discussion at the meeting outlining options and costings for the provision of additional car parking spaces on the inner Boot Road and Rockfield Drive. The Committee is aware that no budget provision has been made for such work in 2015 and is not requesting that such work takes place this year. The purpose of the report is to inform members of possible options in advance of the estimates for 2016."

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor R. McMahon
Responsibility:
Mary Maguire

To ask the Chief Executive how many Sports facilities in the County are like the All Weather Pitches on Fortunestown Way, which are complete and unopened and are not being made available to the Public. Also what are the delays in opening these facilities and when can we expect them to be opened?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor S. Holland
Responsibility:
Leo Magee, Oisin Egan

"That the Chief Executive install fencing around the border of the pitches area at Whitechurch.  Quads and motorbikes are destroying this valuable community asset. An Garda have stated previously during the JPC that they are impossible to police, as giving chase endangers the driver of the quad or motorbike, plus all nearby traffic.  Children play in this area too - we need to cut off vehicular access to the pitches and green area."

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Helen Griffin, Mary Maguire

"To ask for increased monitoring by the litter warden of the section of Tandy's Lane from Meadowview Grove/Dodsboro Road to The Paddocks Adamstown, in an effort to prevent further fly tipping/illegal dumping on the site?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Irenie McLoughlin

"To ask the Council to agree to meet with a delegation of residents from Palmerstown at the site of the Mill Lane Cemetery to discuss proposals of residents relating to the upkeep of the cemetery and buildings thereon and the findings of a Conservation report commissioned by the County Council. The meeting should be attended by the following persons;

a) Representatives of the Parks Department

b) County Architect or a representative of the architects department

c) Heritage officer?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Sean O'Hara, Laura Leonard

To ask the Chief Executive to quantify the amount of Development Levies taken in by the County Council from the 1st of January 2013 to date?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Ó Broin
Responsibility:
Hugh Hogan

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on homelessness in the county detailing; the number of households presenting as homeless each month since the start of 2015; the accumulative total number of households listed as homeless at the end of each month since the start of the year; the accumulative total number of households from the SDCC housing list in emergency accommodation at the end of each month since the start of the year; the accumulative total number of households from the SDCC list on the waiting list for emergency accommodation at the end of each month since the start of the year; and for each of these categories to be broken down by single personal households and households with children and the total number of children for each category?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Ó Broin
Responsibility:
Hugh Hogan

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report detailing the total number of housing allocations made per month since the start of the year broken down by list (CBL, priority transfer, transfer and homeless priority) and by type (council, AHB, RAS, HAP, leasing)?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor R. McMahon
Responsibility:
Leo Magee

"That the Chief Executive place one or two rubbish bins at the new playground in Ballycragh Park, as there the litter is taking away from the playground and the park."

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. O'Brien
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan, Eddie Taaffe

That this Council, in the absence of current agreed protocols outside of normal planning practice, for the naming of areas of significance including but not restricted to, parks, buildings, plazas, streets and bridges agrees to invoke such a protocol incorporating a public consultation process for any such place or area of significance in the future.