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That this council passes a motion voicing our opposition to the Student Services charge, which is effectively a tax on apprenticeship and is contributing to the further marginalisation of our young people, especially those from low income families and is creating a further barrier to them improving their employment prospects.
That this Council, noting the impact of staff cutbacks in recent years and continued pressure on Council services, calls on Government to remove the moratorium on recruitment in local authorities in order to allow for the recruitment of staff in key areas.
That this Council calls on the Minister for Social Protection calling on her to urgently rectify the legal loophole that allows for the reckless practice of informal insolvency by rogue employers leaving workers unable to access their statutory entitlements.
That this council calls on the Chief Executive to set up a task force to examine how litter and illegal dumping can be tackled in the county. This task force could operate similarly to the existing local policing and public transport committees and could include residents, elected members, council staff and other stakeholders including members of the refuse industry, gardaí and local tidy towns groups.
That this Council calls on the Minister for Social Protection calling on her to urgently rectify the legal loophole that allows for the reckless practice of informal insolvency by rogue employers leaving workers unable to access their statutory entitlements.
South Dublin County Council does not support the development of a national waste incinerator in the Dublin Docklands and Poolbeg peninsula.
In order to help clear the large back log of tree pruning and tree removal in our residential areas, I propose that this Council request that the Chief Executive employ outside contractors on an economic basis to supplement the excellent work being done by the County Council staff in trying to keep this problem at bay, so long as it does not have adverse effects on the employment situation within the council
That the Chief Executive present a report, for discussion, on the amount of property tax received per electorial area by south Dublin County Council to date.
That this council passes a motion voicing our opposition to the Student Services charge, which is effectively a tax on apprenticeship and is contributing to the further marginalisation of our young people, especially those from low income families and is creating a further barrier to them improving their employment prospects.
That this Council agrees to reduce the speed limit from 50kph to 20kph within housing estates in support of Jake's Legacy Campaign, together with speed bumps to be placed in all existing residential estates. Jake Brennan was struck by the car in a cul de sac near his Kilkenny home in June and his family believe if the speed limit was lower, he would still be here today.
That this Council, noting the impact of staff cutbacks in recent years and continued pressure on Council services, calls on Government to remove the moratorium on recruitment in local authorities in order to allow for the recruitment of staff in key areas.
That this Council congratulates all Tidy Towns groups in the County on their performance in the 2014 competition; and requests the Chief Executive to arrange for a review of all individual adjudication reports, in conjunction with each local group, with a view to identifying measures which could be implemented by this Council in 2015 to support each group and to address issue identified in the adjudication reports; and to bring a report to the relevant Area Committee on such measures planned for 2015.
With the knowledge that Anaphylaxis is on rise following a W.H.O. (World Health Organisation) survey in 2010, and considering the preventable death of 14 year old Emma Sloan, in Dublin from Anaphylaxis, on O’Connell Street, Dublin after her mother was refused an EpiPen by a pharmacist as she didn't have Emma’s prescription with her. I call on South Dublin Council to give their full support to the campaign Emma’s Voice and request that HSE and Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar, ensure legislation and codes of practices be put in place to ease the restrictions on the availability of Epinephrine auto injectors (commonly known as EpiPens) and other Anaphylaxis medicines and make them available in public areas, and that the Council explore the possibility of having staff training in the administering of EpiPen applications.
That this council calls on the Chief Executive to set up a task force to examine how litter and illegal dumping can be tackled in the county. This task force could operate similarly to the existing local policing and public transport committees and could include residents, elected members, council staff and other stakeholders including members of the refuse industry, gardaí and local tidy towns groups.
Report on Village Improvements Plan Projects
"To ask for a detailed report on the efforts to date; and works likely required, to secure the full restoration of the old Guinness Silver Bridge in Palmerston; including details of any costings conducted on the work required; and on the opportunities that may be available to secure funding for these works?"
To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report outlining how many people are currently on the priority housing list after being certified qualified due to medical grounds. Can the chief executive please provide a breakdown by North and South of the M50 and also by year applicants first became eligible and are still waiting to be housed under these grounds. Can the Chief Executive also provide some statistics outlining how long the average person spends on this list prior to getting housed under this criteria?
"That this Area Committee commends the Foxborough Residents Group on their fantastic efforts in maintaining and enhancing the public realm of both Foxborough estate and of the main roads that pass through and close to the estate, including the painting of plastered boundary walls at Balgaddy Road; however noting the historic failure by this Council to ensure the plastering of boundary walls along the main road between the Grangecastle Road junction and Foxborough Road roundabout, this Area Committee now agrees to support the request by Foxborough residents to have these walls plastered; and therefore recommends that an appropriate sum be provided in the Councils’ budget for 2015, ring-fenced from within the public realm allocation for Lucan, to fund the plastering of these walls in Spring 2015."
"That this Area Committee asks the Chief Executive to develop and install Fairy Woods in the Lucan Area based on the success of such woods in neighbouring Corkagh Park and Tymon Park.
These have proved hugely popular in promoting children´s play and imagination as well as encouraging physical activity among the young families within the County."
Mayors Business
To ensure South Dublin County Council are in the best possible position to build social homes when central exchequer funding becomes available, this motion calls on County Management to bring forward part eight proposals for the development of another 240 social housing units, bringing to 500, the number of ready to build social homes.