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That this Council commends the ongoing programme of ‘Strategic Support towards Business Development and Survival’; and recommends that this council intensify its efforts to more aggressively brand and promote South Dublin County as an attractive location for foreign-direct investment (noting similar strategies by other local authorities), in particular aimed at targeted sectors including in the area of digital services, as set-down in objective 3 of the business support agenda.
That this County Council, welcoming in the main, the recent proposals from National Government for the future funding of Local Government, now requests that the Manager write to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government, copied to the Minister for Finance, asking should the Government persist with the proposed Residential Property Tax, that it be only introduced in tandem with the devolution of full responsibility for the funding of local government to elected local representatives and that it include guarantees that such local fundraising will be coordinated with general taxation and include provision for linkage to household income and ability to pay.
That this Council asks the Library and Community Services Departments, along with other relevant sections of the Council, County Dublin VEC and other interested bodies, to seek to put in place a pilot project to deal with cyber and text bullying amongst children and young people. This pilot would be based in a suitable cluster involving at least one post-primary school, at least one primary school and at least one other relevant organisation such as a youth club or community group. The pilot would seek to utilise the County's Library Services in particular as information hubs to assist parents, schools, youth organisations and young people themselves in dealing with cyber and text bullying, with a view to being extended County-wide into the future.
That this Council requests the Minister for Environment, Local Govt. and Community to make provision for early and/or postal voting so as to facilitate citizens who, for various reasons, are unable to be physically present at their local polling station on polling day, and that this matter be debated.
That this Council asks the Library and Community Services Departments, along with other relevant sections of the Council, County Dublin VEC and other interested bodies, to seek to put in place a pilot project to deal with cyber and text bullying amongst children and young people. This pilot would be based in a suitable cluster involving at least one post-primary school, at least one primary school and at least one other relevant organisation such as a youth club or community group. The pilot would seek to utilise the County's Library Services in particular as information hubs to assist parents, schools, youth organisations and young people themselves in dealing with cyber and text bullying, with a view to being extended County-wide into the future.
That this Council requests the Minister for Environment, Local Govt. and Community to make provision for early and/or postal voting so as to facilitate citizens who, for various reasons, are unable to be physically present at their local polling station on polling day, and that this matter be debated.
That the Manager ensure residents are fully informed of upcoming road works etc. with a schedule of works / advice posted to the relevant households
That this Council should receive the same level of allocation per resident from the Local Government Fund in 2013 as Fingal County Council, and that the Manager would write to the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government conveying this view, and copy the letter to the Dail Deputies representing the Dublin Mid-West and South West constituencies.
"To ask the Manager to make a report regarding the surface water drains on *address supplied . The area constantly floods and despite previous inspections that found no problem there, the area continues to flood?"
"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?"
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"?
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.
To ask the Manager to report on this council's implementation of Department of Finance Circular 10-10 "Guidance Doc on SME participation"?
To ask the Manager to provide a detailed update on the council's proposed piloting of LED public lighting technology?
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?
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
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
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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.