Correspondence (No Business)

New Works (No Business)

New Works (No Business)

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

Correspondence (No Business)

Correspondence (No Business)

Cathaoirleach’s Business (No Business Received)

To ask the Manager for an up-to-date report on the implementation of the policy on homelessness in South Dublin County, and to include 1. the number of people seeking accommodation over the past eleven months, 2.  the numbers accommodated,  3. trends in demand, 4. the ability of this Council to respond in the light of the new arrangement,  and 5. to make a statement on the situation as addressed by this Council?

• Q14 Homeless Services

To ask the Manager for a report on the recently installed Adult Gym Equipment in our parks and to include in the answer the number of people that participated in the recent training sessions per location?

• Q15 Gym Equipment in Parks

That consideration be given for the 2013 grass cutting season to the automatic collection of grass where cutting takes place close to footpaths in our parks and roadways/footpaths in Estates so as to reduce the need for sweeping, blocking of gullies and hazards for pedestrians and cyclists. 

• Q16 Collection of Grass Clippings

To ask the Manager for a report on the number of persons between the ages of 18 and 25 by LEA who are unemployed in South Dublin County?

• Q17 Live Register

To ask the Manager for the up-to-date figure on the percentage of eligible households in the County which have paid the 2011 Household Charge to date?

• Q18 Household Charge

To ask the Manager to provide an approximate figure of the expenditure on repairs, renovation of footpaths in the County in 2012?

• Q19 Footpath expenditure 2012

PART  8 REPORT ON WELLINGTON LANE  - WHITEHALL ROAD  CYCLE TRACK  SCHEME

(circulated herewith)

• H11 PART 8 Wellington Lane - Whitehall Road Cycle Track Scheme

PART 8 REPORT ON ADAMSTOWN ROAD (R120)

(circulated herewith)

• H12 Part 8 Report on Adamstown Road (R120)

That this Council welcomes the Government's stated intention to put in place a probationary period for new Tenants

• M2 Probationary Tenancy

Ministerial

Letter, dated 22nd November 2012, from Department of the Environment regarding SDCC's motion in relation to delay in upgrading Belgard Fire Station (M12/0912)

• Co3 Belgard Fire Station
• SDCC's Letter

Mayor's Business

That this Council supports the establishment of a County Wide Competition in Partnership with the Arts office and the Library Services that would seek entrants for the production of a piece of Street Art or Sculpture to commemorate the 1916 Rising which would be unveiled in a prominent place within the County Town in the centenary year of 2016.  That this Council would also investigate what grants are available to fund such a scheme.

• M1 1916 Commemorative Artwork Commission

To ask that Management explore and pilot test opportunities and means of communicating with the general public so that Council initiatives on such occasions as Halloween, Social Credit System, Seminars, Review of Policy e.g. on litter, parks, parking bye-laws etc. as there is a significant disconnect between the LA and the population it serves that cannot be addressed in an urban environment by public representatives alone?

• M7 Corporate Communications

That this Council criticizes the failure of successive governments to publish a national strategy and policy on Climate Change Adaptation, and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government conveying this view and calling for the early publication of a National Strategy on Climate Change Adaptation.

• M8 Climate Change Adaptation