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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Philip Murphy

To ask the Manager to write to the National Transport Authority & Minister for Transport to request that the NTA Advisory Council be established prior to the adoption of the new Greater Dublin Area Transport Strategy?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Gerry Fitzgibbon, Laura Leonard

To ask the Manager if he will provide information on the number of persons currently working with South Dublin County Council under the FAS Placement Programme, including outline information on qualifications of the persons involved and the general areas of Council work to which they have been assigned?

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

To ask the Manager if he will provide a report on the role, responsibility and authority of the Council in the process whereby Dublin Bus places new bus stops, relocates existing bus stops, places bus route terminals and relocates bus route terminals in the County?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Anne Reilly, Yvonne Dervan, Jim Kilgarriff

To ask the Manager if he will provide a report on the existing position in regard to the Council's Parks Depots, including the location of each Depot, the area of the site and buildings at each Depot, the activities taking place in each Depot, the number of staff based at each Depot, and information on other facilities, such as sports facilities, dressing rooms etc., included within a Depot site? 

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Mick McCartan, Miriam Reilly

To ask the Manager for an updated report on the total number of applicants, including transfer applicants, for housing under the Applicant Sourced Housing initiative, since the Council began to implement the initiative, and the number of applicants who have to date been allocated homes under the initiative?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Tuffy
Responsibility:
Tony O Grady

To ask the Manager for an updated report on the Salt Barn being built by the Council, adjacent to the N4, close to the N4/Fonthill Road junction?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Bond
Responsibility:
Teresa Walsh

That this Council will examine the feasibility of setting up a South Dublin County Council Smart Phone application. Such an application could contain information on local amenities and events. It could also allow local businesses to buy up advertising space on the application.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Higgins
Responsibility:
Colm Ward

That this Council calls for an examination of the possibility and financial feasibility of introducing a junk collection system in 2012.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Duff
Responsibility:
Mary Maguire

That this Council calls on the Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD,  to immediately appoint a Minister with sole responsibility for the National Drug Strategy and to show commitment to the Communities across South Dublin County and beyond, that live on a daily basis with the ongoing drug crisis, that this Government is determined to strip the criminal gangs of their assets and stop the flow of drugs into our Communities.

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

That this Council is supportive of small retail businesses in the County, particularly in the traditional villages and smaller urban centres in the County, and requests the Manager to review and present a report on the approach and procedures taken by the Council in the matter of small signs, including sandwich boards, placed on footpaths outside shops and other retail outlets, and in particular if he will review the consistency of the Council's approach to sandwich boards outside shops and tables/chairs, canopies on the footpath outside cafes and restaurants, and if the Manager can advise on the laws, including bye-laws, and other regulations under which the Council deals with these issues?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. King
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"To ask the Manager to arrange for the installation of yield signs in the vicinity of numbers 1 & 101 Avonbeg Gardens to facilitate the safe passage of traffic through this section of Public Road?"

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor T. Gilligan
Responsibility:
Clodagh Henehan

That this Council introduces its own local currency, in conjunction with local businesses, that would be acceptable as payment for rents, NPPR, bin charges and that would be backed by hard commodities - such as allotments, food, energy, agriculture... The currency would not be pegged to any other currency USD/EUR/GBP but would be exchangable for those currencies. The currency would be used alongside the EURO.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor W. Lavelle
Responsibility:
Michael Fagan, Marian Jordan

That this Council requests the Manager to present a detailed report for discussion on efforts to ensure value-for-money in concluding the acquisition of social and affordable housing subject to pre-2010 Part V agreements; in particular where similar unsold units are on sale in some of the same developments at a current market price significantly less than the agreed Part V cost to the Council.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor E. Walsh 2009
Responsibility:
Yvonne Dervan, Jim Kilgarriff

1. Cé mhéad fógraí um pionós socraithe (€63.50) a bhí eisithe ag an gComhairle Contae de réir fho-dhlíthe na Comhairle a bhaineann leis an toirmeasc ar Ólachán deochanna meisciúla in Áíteanna poiblí ar fud an Chontae in 2010 agu sa chéad cheathrú den bhliain seo?

2. Cé mhéad pionós socraithe nach raibh Íoctha sa bhliain 2010 agus sa cheathrú sin?

3. Cé mhéad ionchúiseamh a ndeachaigh chuig an gCúirt Dúiche de bharr mhainneachtain na suimeanna dlite a Íoc  sa chead cheathrú dern bhliain seo agus in 2010 ? 

1. How many fixed penalty notices (€63.50) were issued by the County Council  according to the bye-laws of the Council in relation to the prohibition on drinking of Intoxicating Liquor in Public Places throughout the County in 2010 and the first quarter of this year? 

2. How many fixed penalties were not paid in 2010 and in this quarter?

3. How many prosecutions went to the District Court for failure to pay the penalty this year and last year?

Correspondence
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Community Directorate
Responsibility:
Community Directorate

Letter, dated 23rd March 2011, from North Tipperary County Council regarding Water Services

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Cosgrave
Responsibility:
Mairead Hunt

"To ask the Manager what is the planning situation with the large sign at the motor repair business at Landys Yard, Knocklyon Road. The sign had been used to advertise the proposed housing development there and is now used to advertise car repairs?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Cosgrave
Responsibility:
John Quinlivan

"To ask the Manager will litter bins be included along the new Grange Road QBC?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Cosgrave
Responsibility:
Michael Hannon

"To ask the Manager to include the removal of the large tree at the side of 13 Knocklyon Avenue in the tree removal programme. There are also two, tree stumps and large tree roots still not removed at the side and front of the same house?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor P. Cosgrave
Responsibility:
John McLoughlin

"To ask the Manager to have a painted 'No Parking White Box' placed in front of house (address supplied). Other neighbours and visitors continually block the driveway?"

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Lahart
Responsibility:
Michael Hannon

"To ask the Manager to weed and restore the landscaping on the Orlagh Grove, Scholarstown and Ballyboden Roundabouts?"