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To ask the Manager to report on efforts to keep the general vicinity of Hayden’s Lane Place tidy and free of illegal dumping and illegally-parked vehicles? If this area is left unkempt it will severely take from the attractiveness and perceived safety of the proposed green-route linking Griffeen Valley Park to the Grand Canal?
To ask the Manager to write to Dublin Bus again requesting that the long promised bus shelters be installed on Kennelsfort Road, Palmerstown without further delay?
To ask the Manager for a report on the Council's plans for the elimination of Bonfires this Halloween within the area of this Committee and that the Council write now to relative community groups advising them of the Council’s policy and seeking their positive support in stamping out this dangerous and expensive practice?
To ask the Manager for an updated report on the collaborative project between Ronanstown Youth Service and the Housing/Community Departments to provide a Youth Service in two vacant units (intended as shops) in the Council's Balgaddy Development?
Update on Connect Educate
That this Committee commends the County Librarian for her efforts to identify a suitable location for the long promised Library/Digital Hub in Palmerstown for residents of the 3000 homes in the area as well as for the extensive staff and persons who are living in or associated with Stewarts Hospital; that she report on progress to date in promoting the library service available at and through Stewarts Hospital and in particular the success in providing, in so far as is possible, the same range of services either in-house or in other suitable local locations, as it does in other branches of the County Library, within the Palmerstown community.
That this Committee congratulates the Lucan Tidy Towns group on their result in the 2010 National Tidy Towns contest whereby Lucan Village’s overall marks increased from 269 last year to 276 this year and won the Dublin (South) County award. However while welcoming the improved cleanliness of the Lucan Village area, this Committee again expresses its serious concern over litter problems in the Lucan South area and further to my motion at the April meeting, recommends that a permanent hand-cart service be introduced in the Lucan South area with a primary focus on the areas and roads nearest to the Ballyowen Castle local centre, the Griffeen local centre and Foxborough. This hand-cart service would be of significant benefit in assisting efforts to address the very serious and highly-visible litter problems blighting some of these areas and in particular would be of advantage in allowing for more regular removal of litter from landscaped areas not subject to the regular street-sweeping rota. This Committee therefore requests the Manager to present a detailed report for discussion on how we could progress this proposal with specific reference to the human resources and financial matters involved.
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To ask the Manager responsible if there has been a response from the HSE to my motion inviting it to provide a briefing to this Committee on the services provided by the HSE for children with special needs in the area covered by this Committee?
"To ask the Manager for an update on the TASC Pavilion, on contact with the clubs involved (including Limekiln Rounders club) and to make a statement on the matter?"
To ask the Manager for a progress report on the maintenance of the bottle banks at SuperValu Palmerstown so that they are no longer an eyesore for local residents?
Cathaoirleach's Business
That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee resolves that, after years of unacceptable delays, it is a priority for this Committee to do everything it can to bring the Palmerstown Community Centre Project to a conclusion before summer 2011, requests the Manager to use all measures open to him, including the commitment of required Council financial and other resources and the planning enforcement powers, if appropriate, available to him to have the required construction and fitting out works implemented, and to ask the Manager to make an updated report on the matter at the September meeting of the ACM.
To ask the Manager if he will write to County Dublin VEC, requesting figures for the number of persons who have enrolled, by School/Centre, on the Committee's Programme of Labour Force Activation courses (for persons in receipt of the JS Allowance and whose present qualification is Level 5 or lower) in the Lucan and Clondalkin areas?
"To ask the Manager to provide an update on the Masterplan for Beechfield Park, Cherryfield, and to provide details of maintenance and other works carried out at the park over the last 6 months?"
To ask the Manager, if he will write to the major supermarket and hardware outlets in the Lucan and Clondalkin Electoral Areas, encouraging them to stock "compostable" bags which are regarded as suitable for Brown Bins, so that households who do not find it convenient to use paper to wrap food waste and other allowed materials for placing in their Brown Bins have a permitted alternative?
"To ask the Manager to tackle immediately the litter and uncut grass problems of Airton Road in Tallaght ?"
To ask the Manager for a report on the graffiti situation in Palmerstown, especially but not only in the back lanes (many of which are used by parents and children on the way to and from school, and to include in the report proposals for addressing the situation and the possible time scale?
That the Housing Manager presents an updated report on physical improvements planned for the new housing in Kilcronan Court and also concerning the suggested closure of the gap between Kilcronan Court and Kilcronan View, Clondalkin.
That this Committee re-affirms and will not give up on its commitment to the provision of a public Swimming Pool in Lucan, condemns unequivocally the decision, supported by all the Coalition parties and members including FF, Green and Independent Dáil Deputies representing Lucan, to abandon, after the relevant Government Department had led this Committee and the Council "up the garden path " for years, including the years of the dear departed Celtic Tiger, by giving repeated written replies referring to the re-opening of the Swimming Pool Programme, the scheme of financial support for Local Authority Swimming Pools, recognises that this betrayal of the Lucan Swimming Pool Project, combined with the collapse in Development Levy income to the Council makes it very difficult for the Manager to raise the necessary finance for a Swimming Pool Project, nevertheless requests the Manager to meet with Lucan EA Councillors to discuss and explore any options that might be open to the Council, and the community of Lucan, to bring a Lucan Swimming Pool project to fruition.
That this Committee requests the Manager to initiate a feasibility study into the provision of an Enterprise Centre and ‘jobs hub’ in the Lucan and Adamstown area to include physical space such as 'hot-desks' and 'incubator units' for use by local entrepreneurs and business start-ups as well as providing a base for Local Employment Services and for training programmes run by CPLN Area Partnership and other bodies. In conducting this feasibility study the Committee further requests the Manager to liaise with CPLN Area Partnership, the County Enterprise Board, Enterprise Ireland, the developers of Adamstown SDZ and other potential stakeholders and to research all funding opportunities and existing premises in Lucan and Adamstown available to let and to report back to a future meeting of this Committee with a report under a headed item.