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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Colm Ward

To ask the Manager for an update on efforts to secure an economical design solution so as to attractively enclose the open rubbish dumps at Esker Cemetery as I have requested before on numerous occasions?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Duff
Responsibility:
Michael Hannon

"To ask the Manager if  CCTV is to be installed at the bottle banks in Tymon Park and will he indicate if this will happen during the current year?"

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.
Responsibility:
Development, Econ. & Transport Planning Dept.

Cathaoirleachs Business

(None received)

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Community Directorate
Responsibility:
Community Directorate

Cathaoirleachs Business

(None received)

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
David Fennell

To ask the Manager can an inspection of roadside trees in the Palmerston area be carried out and any branches that are a health and safety hazard are removed as a matter of urgency?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Colm Ward

To ask the Manager how many householders in the Lucan Electoral Area were in receipt of Bin Waivers on the date on which the Council transferred its Household Bin Collection Service to Greyhound Waste, and if he can advise what percentage, approximately, of all households in the Lucan Electoral Area did this represent? 

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Jones
Responsibility:
Georgina Byrne

To ask the Manager if it will be possible to have an on-line booking system for next year’s Ruaille Buaille Festival to aid schools and residents who may not be able to phone during Library hours?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager if he would arrange to meet with the Receiver appointed to Finnstown House Hotel to seek to reverse the decision to close the pedestrian access between Adamstown and the Hotel which I understand was closed due to uncertainty relating to concerns over the possible creation of a right-of-way?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

 To ask the Manager for clarification of a number of aspects of the Parking Bye Laws, as they apply to Lucan Village and the immediately adjacent area:

1. Is the current fee for a yearly resident's permit €20?

2. Are residents of Main Street and Chapel Hill (i.e. that part of Chapel Hill from the entrance of Sarsfield Park up to cluster of shops opposite the Boys NS) eligible to obtain residents permits, and if so where can they park their registered cars?

3. What is the current fee payable by a resident for the first visitor's permit? (It is listed as €30 on SDCC Website, but should this be €20)?

4. Is the current fee payable by a resident for a second visitor's permit €50?

5. If the fee in 4. is €50 when was this fee set, and was it approved by Councillors at a Council meeting?

6. What was the fee for a second visitor's permit when the Lucan Village Pay Parking Scheme was firs introduced?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
David Fennell

To ask the Manager if the meeting regarding the ditch between PJ Edwards and Palmerstown Green has taken place as agreed with the recent deputation from Palmerstown Court Residents Association?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Tony Shanahan, William Purcell

To ask the Manager, further to my Emergency Motion passed at the May meeting, to update on efforts to resolve the long-outstanding taking-in-charge of Griffeen Glen Boulevard and Courtyard?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Jones
Responsibility:
John Browne

That this Committee calls for help to be given to Foxborough Maintenance Association with regard to tackling a problematic area located between the green space at Foxborough Road and the Outer-Ring Road.  That the Association will be met, the area examined and that a collaborative approach involving the Association, our Environmental Services Department and our Park's Department is agreed. The aim of this will be that the area can be maintained free from litter, graffiti, anti-social behaviour and illegal activity.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor G. O'Connell
Responsibility:
Neil O'Byrne, Irenie McLoughlin

To ask the Manager for a report on the two houses (address supplied) that have had their roofs removed and if they are protected under the heritage of the area and what discussions the Council have had in relation to them and what steps have been taken to preserve/restore them given that they are possibly several hundred years old?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

That the Manager report on the progress of the review of the County Play Policy and advise as to whether a playground for Palmerston is being considered as part of the review.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
John Browne

That this Committee requests the Manager to present a detailed updated report for discussion on the status of the land-swap agreement approved by the then Councillors in November 2006 in which this Council disposed of 41.5 acres of land at Balgaddy/Kishogue to Shelbourne Developments, noting that subject to clause 13 of the agreement if “the construction works on Plot A1 and Plot B have not commenced within three months of the date of final grant of planning permission for the development… then either party may by written notification rescind the agreement in relation to plots A1 & B” and further  noting that no construction has commenced within three of the grant of permission by an Bord Pleanála on 24th February 2011.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
David Fennell

To ask the Manager for an updated report on the proposed Part 8 Public Consultation Process for a new Park's Depot in Lucan?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
Willie Sheils

That the Manager report on the plans for this years Palmerston Festival and details the funding and resources being made available for this event.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Jones
Responsibility:
John Browne

That this Committee calls for help to be given to Foxborough Maintenance Association with regard to tackling a problematic area located between the green space at Foxborough Road and the Outer-Ring Road.  That the Association will be met, the area examined and that a collaborative approach involving the Association, our Environmental Services Department and our Park's Department is agreed. The aim of this will be that the area can be maintained free from litter, graffiti, anti-social behaviour and illegal activity.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Paul Hogan

To ask the Manager if there has been any discussions between Esker Educate Together NS/The Department of Education and Skills, the Adamstown Developer and the Council on a temporary site for non-permanent buildings in the Adamstown SDZ area for Esker Educate Together NS, and if agreement is reached in regard to making a site available for a limited period, what Planning Permission procedures will apply and if he will make a statement on the matter?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
David Fennell

To compliment the Heritage Officer, the Park's Department Staff and all those involved in the recent BioBlitz in Waterstown Park and to ask the Manager if he will provide a report, in non specialist terms, of the numbers of species observed under various headings such as birds, fresh water animals and fish, animals, insects, flowers and plants etc., and to ask if the Council might co-operate with Fingal County Council and Kildare County Council in having a biodiversity audit done on Lucan Demesne/St. Catherine's Park?