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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Looney
Responsibility:
Emer O'Gorman

To ask the Manager to detail all official contact from and with the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, or his Department officials, on issues of local government reform relevant to South Dublin County Council following the publication of "Putting People First" in 2012, and to make a statement on the matter?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Looney
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager to give a report on works underway, planned, envisaged or considered to provide renewable energy resources in the County, with regard to wind power, hydroelectric, solar, geothermal, biofuels or otherwise; to state the nature of these works; and to make a statement on South Dublin County Council's policy on encouraging renewable energy in the County in the time ahead?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Looney
Responsibility:
Emer O'Gorman, Aoileann Nic Dhonnacha

Chun ceist a chur ar an mBainisteoir cathain a mbeidh leagán Gaeilge ar fáil don suíomh Idirlín Chomhairle Contae Áth Cliath Theas, agus an mbeidh tuilleadh seirbhísí eile ar fáil trí Ghaeilge san am atá romhainn?

To ask the Manager when there will be an Irish version of South Dublin County Council's website and will there be more services available through Irish in the future?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

To ask the Manager for a report on the Community Employment Scheme as operated by this Council to include the numbers involved, the type of activity engaged in, progression patterns for participants and the possibility for expansion of the numbers involved?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils, Gerry Fitzgibbon, Conor Lehane

To ask the Manager for a report on the operation of and numbers involved in this Council under the Work Placement Programme, redeployed Apprentices and TUS?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
Billy Coman, Hugh Hogan

To ask the Manager for a report on the provision of services for Homeless persons to include the relationship between this Council and the Homeless Executive, the role and function of the Homeless Executive, the role of housing agencies, and NGO's and how the policies pursued by this Council can contribute to the recently announced Government Objective on the elimination of Homelessness?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
Thomas Curtin

To request that the Manager provide a comprehensive report, to include the opinion of the Law Agent, on the situation of  “right of way” legislation as it pertains to laneways that have been provided in former times to enable householders access the rear gardens of their properties and therefore are not “thoroughfares” for the general public and will not be less “rights of way” for the intended purpose if there is a controlled entrance to the laneway (i.e. a gate) over which all relevant and interested parties (i.e. all householders with access to the laneway as well as the Local Authority) have control?

Headed Item
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Sharon Tobin
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

APPLICATION FOR A COUNTYWIDE GRANT

(circulated herewith)

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Lahart
Responsibility:
Frank Nevin

That this Council reviews the efforts of this council in relation to support for the self-employed/sole traders and small businesses in the county

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Looney
Responsibility:
Neil O'Byrne

That this Council, again recognising the enormous environmental, health, and tourism benefits of the approx 5,000 acres of publicly-run forest areas in the Dublin Mountains area, reiterates its opposition to the privatisation of Coillte and states its opposition to the sell-off of its timber harvesting rights to private companies.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Looney
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils, Emer O'Gorman, Elaine Leech

That this Council notes with regret the decision not to host a St Patrick's Day event in the county town this year; and that this Council calls on interested organisations and groups to come together with the support and backing of South Dublin County Council for events in Tallaght and elsewhere in the county for the 2014 celebrations.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
Brian Sheehan

That this Council congratulates the staff and volunteers involved in Opportunity to Transform Walk in Corkagh Park and supports efforts to encourage more people into parks around the County.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
John Browne

To ask the Manager to shorten the height of the wall at the house 1a St Patricks estate between the chipper, which makes the area here darker?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
Donna Lakes

To ask the Manager to undertake a full and comprehensive clean up of the land adjacent to Palmerstown Woods, Clondalkin?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
Tony Shanahan

To ask the Manager to outline bonds outstanding in 2011/2012;  bonds not extended and why in 2011/2012;  also broken down into the respective local areas?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
Breda Fogarty

To ask the Manager to outline unauthorised development detected in 2011/2012;  planning enforcement notices not complied with in 2011/2012;  also broken down into the respective local areas?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Hannon
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager to report on progress with regard to the achievement of the SLO in the current Development Plan with regard to the extension of Dodder Valley Park from Old Mill to Bohernabreena?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Hannon
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager to report on progress, or otherwise, in relation to the SLO on Brittas Village in the current Development Plan?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Hannon
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager to report on progress, if any, in relation to the SLO in the current Development Plan with regard to the control of 'quad bikes'?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. Kenny
Responsibility:
Colm Ward, Bernie McCormack

Of the 310 horses that were disposed of by SDCC in 2012: Can the council give a numerical breakdown of which horses were sent to the knackery and which horses were sold on to a third party?