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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
NRA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT ROAD ALLOCATIONS 2014
(Tony O'Grady)
Cathaoirleach’s Business
"That the Manager include in the works of the Grange Road Permeability project the removal of the railings at the green area at the side of house 1 Grange Downs out to the Barton Road Extn. be replaced with a stone wall as requested by the Grange Downs Residents Association. A stone wall will be built as part of the works of the Grange Road Permeability project at this green area and should include the replacement of the railings with a stone wall."
NRA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT ROAD ALLOCATIONS 2014
NRA AND DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT ROAD ALLOCATIONS 2014
That this Committee agrees that the Manager brings a report to the meeting outlining the schedule of work over the coming 12 months on the entrance and car park at the Clondalkin leisure centre including the following works; cleaning the recycling facility; upgrading the lighting; resurfacing the car park; pruning and improving the trees & shrubs; improving the visual impact of the entrance; and any other matters that have been brought to the Council's attention following the negative commentary of this location from the National Tidy Towns report in 2013. The committee also agrees that the manager will provide monthly updates on this work in the form of a regular headed item at the area committee.
Cathaoirleach’s Business
"That the Manager give an update on when work will start on the new Knockcullen/Knocklyon Road entrance and could this committee see the design of the road closure at Knockcullen Rise."
Castlefields, Glenlyon and Glenvara
That before the adoption of the Ballycullen/Oldcourt Local Area Plan that a fixed timeframe be given as to when the remedial work to the Ballycullen steam culvert be carried out. It is accepted by the Manager that there has been four instances of flooding in the estates of Castlefields, Glenlyon and Glenvara between 2008 and 2012, with reports of residents no longer able to insure their homes against such risk.
The Manager has put forward a solution to the problem and the recommendation in the Manager's Report is that there be no feed into the Ballycullen stream until the necessary works have been completed. Instead, the Manager recommends that any future development in the subject lands will drain into the private drainage system but without the details of such private drainage system, leaving it instead that this detail be provided by the Developer , to the satisfaction of the Planner. I would argue that this recommendation is far too vague and uncertain, as it offers no real and immediate solution to the residents of Castlefields, Glenlyons and Glenvara.
If I am to support the Manager's recommendations then I will need precise details to when the replacement pipe will be laid. My point is that the Manager concedes this work needs to be done – postponing the necessary works only serves to expose residents to further instances of flooding. There is now a legal duty of care on the Manger to provide the funding to complete such works as a matter of urgency and without delay. Furthermore, I would argue that in accepting the source of the problem and in recommending the solution this Council is now leaving itself exposed to multiple claims by residents of Castlefields, Glenlyon and Glenvara in the event of future flooding before such works are completed. The legal element of foreseeability having been conceded and accepted by this Council.
Stocking Wood
That before this Council supports the adoption of the Manager's recommendations that there be a further recommendation so as to supports wishes of the 207 residents of Stocking Wood, that there be a further alteration which I understand necessitating an amendment/alteration to the Development plan be made, such as to locate the pedestrian access at each end of Stocking Wood via the green areas at Stocking Wood Manor and Stocking Wood Copse.
That the Manager agrees to set up a mutual transfer database within the county where tenants can state where they would like to be moved which could then be matched with a tenant who is also willing to move
Departmental
Letter, dated 24/01/14, from Minister for Transport, Sports and Tourism enclosing details of the 2014 Grant Allocations to South Dublin County Council for the Maintenance and Improvement of Regional and Local Roads