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To ask the Manager to provide an update on flood prevention and planning works in the County undertaken in 2013 or planned for the coming months, and to make a statement on the matter?
"That the Manager examine the suggestion from Rathfarnham Traders/Tidy Village representatives that the first three or four parking spaces on the eastern side of the village at the northern entrance (opposite the entrance to the graveyard and outside the Credit Union) could be examined for removal as they actually block two lane movement in and out of the village. If the first three or four spaces were removed traffic would flow more easily into the village."
To ask the Manager to provide a report on the current housing list for South Dublin County Council, including therein a comparison with previous years, and to make a statement on the matter?
"That the Roads Department include in their new works programme building a new kerb and gully opposite the new river wall and kerb at the side of house 601 Woodview Cottages. Rainwater runs down the Rosary footpath to the only drain at the end of the area."
To ask the Manager to provide a report on the costs associated with bonfire clean-ups, education programmes and other programmes around Hallowe'en 2013, and to make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager if he will make a Report on the current status of the document "The Mobility and Management of Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) on South Dublin County Road Network", and if he will include information on when the new system of classifying goods vehicles will come fully into effect, what actions have been taken by the Council in changing restriction signage on roads, and if the Council has plans to publicize the new system amongst residents and vehicle drivers?
To ask the Manager if he will provide figures for the number of Community Grants awarded by the Council, through the Community Services Department, to Community Groups/ Clubs/Projects etc. in 2011, 2012 and to date in 2013?
To ask the Manager for a progress report on the setting up of the South Dublin County LEO (Local Enterprise Office)?
To ask the Manager, noting Question 21 and Reply at the Council Meeting of 13th May 2013 regarding the possibility of funding from the Eropean Council Youth Guarantee Programme, if the Council has yet received guidelines from the Department of Social Protection on the implementation of the scheme, and if the Council has received any clarification on the possibiity of it accessing finance from the Scheme to run Social Employment Programmes for unemployed residents of the County under 25 years of age?
Mayors Business
That this Council expresses its deep concern regarding reports on the distribution of revenue from the Local Property Tax and calls on the Government to allocate funding to all local authorities based on the 80% allocation model, as proposed during its introduction.
That the Manager present a report outlining how many dogs were taken in for the first 2 months (broken down each month) of operations with Ashtown and how many were reclaimed, rehomed, how many went to rescue, how many PTS, how many restricted breeds were taken in; and that this report be presented to Council on a quarterly basis.
That this Council, noting the commitment in the Programme for Government to put in place a national waiver system to support low income households with the costs of household waste collections, and further noting that in the Government Policy document " A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland" (Page 32) published in July 2012 it is stated "... it is intended to introduce a household waste collection waiver scheme and other alternative support schemes for low income households", deplores the lack of progress by the Government in implementing its commitment to low income households to help them with these charges, and requests the Manager to convey its view to the Ministers for Environment, Community and Local Government, Social Protection, Public Expenditure and Reform, Finance and An Tanaiste (ie whose Departments are referred to on Page 32 of the above document in regard to "recommendations to minimize the impact of waste charges on low income households"), and seek a response from the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government which gives a date for the introduction of support schemes.
That this Council increase maintenance levels at Grange Castle Golf Course
To ask the Manager to supply details of our Winter Maintenance Plan and resources for winter 2013 /14?
To ask the Manager to provide information on the County's Halloween clean-up costs 2013 in comparison to 2012?
To ask the Manager to report on and to provide copies of any and all correspondence issued to and received from the National Transport Authority over the past 18 months relating to the repeated requests from the elected members to be consulted as part of the proposed review of bus services in our County?
To ask the Manager to provide a copy of the public transport accessibility study carried out for the South Dublin County area in late 2010; to further ask if this study has been updated to reflect the Dublin Bus 'Network Direct' changes; and if there are any plans to conduct any further public transport accessibility studies in the County?
That the Manager provides a report on publicly accessible crime statistics gathered through / supplied to the JPC and local policing fora in the County
"To ask the Manager to circulate residents in Owendoher Crescent on the health and safety hazards of leaving food for foxes?"
"To ask the Manager to provide for the planting of appropriate trees (with translucent leaves preferably) along Dodder Valley Road along the open space adjacent to Woodview Cottages (to be agreed with Rathfarnham Tidy Villages Committee)?"