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To ask the Manager to ensure that any eligible voter that has been housed or re-housed through our scheme of letting priorities over the past three years is on the electoral register in an effort to ensure as many people as possible have the capacity to utilize their franchise?
To ask the Manager to produce an information/educational item to be placed on sdcc.ie informing 'foreign nationals' of their voting rights in the upcoming local and European elections and also to inform them how to check the register and how to exercise their franchise?
To ask the Manager if it is planned to introduce weekend emptying of litter bins on our villages?
To ask the Manager to seek details on the consultation process being proposed by the National Roads Authority with elected members of this Council on the planned N4/N7 corridor study?
To ask the Manager for a detailed update on the ongoing studies of potential hydro-electric schemes in the County?
To ask the Manager how many social housing units have been built or procured by the Council, year-on-year, for as far back as records are available, and to make a statement on plans for social housing building and procurement for 2014 and 2015?
To ask the Manager to provide a list of sites licenced to store, process or otherwise deal with waste in the County; to give details of the particular licences applied to each site; to provide a breakdown of the role of the Council, the EPA and other agencies in the licencing, planning and operation of these sites; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to state the approach of the Council to dealing with issues related to climate change, across the areas of planning, drainage, environmental services and other related fields; to ask for details of the climate change element of the new directorate; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to clarify the position for both existing and future applicants to the four schemes which deal with housing adaptation supports, and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager what proportion of the Local Property Tax collected in SDCC has been allocated through the Local Government Fund or any other means to the Council this year; what is the status of the proposed distribution of the LPT for 2015; what is the status of the proposals to allow Councillors to vary the LPT in a particular local authority area; and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to provide a report based on the proposals in the Local Government Bill as to changes to Councillor representation on all existing and new statutory bodies and other groups (e.g. Local Education and Training Boards, Drugs Task Forces, Local Community Development Companies, etc), and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager if he can provide information on the amount of money paid in damages to persons who took legal action/or sued the Council seeking compensation for injuries from falls or other accidents on footpaths in the county, during the period 2009 to 2012?
To ask the Manager if he will provide the following information for the years 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013: (i) The amount of development levy income due to the Council and (ii) the amount of development levy payments made to the Council, and if he can advise on the measures being implemented by the Council to recoup unpaid development levies?
Mayor's Business
That this Council notes its ongoing concern with the tens of millions of euro being paid by this Council into the Poolbeg Incinerator project with no tangible signs of progress; that the Council calls for a full report on the history of the process and the future plans; and that the Council writes to Dublin City Council, as the lead authority in the scheme, to express said concern.
That this Council in view of the ever increasing difficulty of Housing applicants acquiring private rented properties as a result of being rent supplement recipients, calls on the Minister to introduce guidelines, rules or legislation if required to ensure that such people are no longer discriminated against on the basis of their economic status
That this Council calls on the Manager to commence an examination of the feasibility of the use of private contractors to augment the Council's litter management, cleansing and bin emptying service, with a particular view to seek to increase the capacity, frequency and effectiveness of service provision in specific areas.
That this Council calls on the Manager to provide an updated report on the situation with vacant bank owned houses within the County and for the report to include outcomes of meetings that were due to take place with the various stakeholders in this regard
That this Council calls on the Manager to outline how this local authority intends to engage with the 'Gateway' work placement scheme
That this Council deplores the delay on the part of the Government to implement, as promised in the Programme for Government 2011, and repeated in A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland (July 2012), a scheme to provide low income households with financial assistance in paying for household waste collection, and requests the Manager to convey this sentiment to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, and ask the Minister to advise on a date on which the Government will put a support scheme in place.
NRA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT ROAD ALLOCATIONS 2014