"To ask the Manager to make a report regarding the Public Lighting on the new LUAS footpath at Cookstown, (Ambervale) and indicate when he expects the lighting to be connected?"

• Q 4

To ask the Manager, further to my previous motions and questions, most recently at the March 2012 meeting, to report on the commitment to "collect information on all expenditure on goods and services across the organisation and to review the methodology of procurement in each case, with a view to making recommendations on how best the Council can make expenditure savings through more efficient procurement as well as supporting the local economy while complying with procurement legislation and guidelines"?

• Q6 Procurement

That this Committee calls on the Manager to carry out an immediate inspection of the footpaths in Castle Park, Tallaght, particularly and including the cul de sac from * Address Supplied. The Castle Park area has a large number of senior citizens resident there and the state of the footpaths present a danger to their wellbeing.

• M.5

To ask the Manager to report on this council's implementation of Department of Finance Circular 10-10 "Guidance Doc on SME participation"?

• Q7 Circular 10/10

To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on the council's proposed piloting of LED public lighting technology?

• Q8 LED Public Lighting

To ask the Manager for a report on costs of public lighting in 2012, compared to the agreed budget; and to outline the measures in place to manage these costs?

• Q9 Public Lighting

That this Council congratulates the Manager for the Halloween Initiative of giving each household in the County free access to Ballymount Civic Amenity on Saturday 27th October and acknowledging the vast numbers who used the facility on that day, calls on the Manager to (A) extend the free pass to enter over a weekend instead of just one day, (B) to ensure that the Free Pass is clearly identifiable as such, and (C) in an effort to avoid the large tailback of vehicles, queuing for entry, to consider placement of skips at appropriate locations, outside the Civic Amenity

• M10 Civic Amenity

That this Council calls on the Manager to review the policy of sending demands for historical waste collection charges to Primary Schools and Community Centres in the County and to consider in that review the capacity of these schools and centres to pay waste charge invoices that date back in some cases to 2007 and to the distress caused to these financially challenged institutions.

Sectoral Strategy of the Local Government Sector to promote Employment and Support Local Enterprise

.         Local Actions.

.         DRAFT Economic Strategy.

AOB

There is a huge demand for a pedestrian gap to be opened which would allow access for residents from Ashwood / Alpine and the greater Bawnogue area onto the fonthill road at the Dunawley junction.  That the Manager present a report on the feasability of this project, given that there now appears to be almost 100 per cent support for this to be done.

• M 11

That this council offer an incentive to businesses to change their signage to a type of sign that would be more acceptable aesthetically by offering a reduction in rates to businesses who install improved signage which would be in keeping with the historic village centres in our county.

• M9 Commercial Rates

Minutes

Minutes from Tallaght ACM 22nd October, 2012.

• H 1 Minutes

Library News & Events

• H 3 Library Events

New Works (No Business)

New Works (No Business)

"To ask the manager for an update with regard to the open space at Willbrook Lawn?"

Matters Arising

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