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"That this Committee agrees that a road sign policy be drawn up for residential areas to ensure that signs such as the recent one proposed for Butterfield Avenue are not inflicted on Residents right outside their front door. Furthermore that this Committee agrees that the proposed sign on Butterfield Avenue is not erected until type and size is agreed by this Committee/Council."
To ask the Manager to provide details of traffic calming schemes completed in the past five years which involved construction of ramps and/or speed cushions and to advise on the current cost of constructing ramps and speed cushions?
To ask the Manager to provide a report on the roll-out of the brown bin service?
To ask the Manager to provide a full report, including relevant statistics, on delays in the payment of student maintenance grants in the 2009-2010 academic year, and on the planned changes to application and processing of grants for the 2010-2011 academic year?
To ask the Manager if he will provide figures for the total number (under all schemes) of Affordable Units disposed by the Council to purchasers in 2008 and 2009, and if he will provide an updated figure for the number of Affordable Units which are currently in the ownership of the Council and which at this time are unsold?
To ask the Manager for an outline report on the insulation standards of the housing units owned by the Council, and request that he arrange to get comprehensive information on the programme being implemented by the City Council of Vienna (cf. Pages 46-50, The New Scientist, 27th March 2010) to refurbish about 5% of its housing units each year, with the aim of cutting their annual energy consumption to one fifth of current levels, and if he will particularly source information on the cost of such a refurbishment programme and how it is being funded, and if he will present a report to a future meeting of this Council on the feasibility of a similar programme in this County?
To ask the Manager if he can make a report on the proposed Think Local 2010 initiative adopted at a recent CDB meeting, including information on the activities being organised to promote the initiative amongst residents, businesses and organisations in the County?
What measures is Council management undertaking to ensure that the interests of constituents who live in the South Dublin County Council area are properly represented and addressed given the IMPACT Trade Union's instructions to their members not to answer communications directly or at all from democratically elected Councillors acting on their constituents' behalf?
ADOPTION OF AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN 2009 - 2012
(circulated herewith)
That this Council, in light of existing derelict sites in the county, including the McHugh's Site in Greenhills, and the likelihood of further sites in the coming months and years, notes that existing legislation, including the 1990 Derelict Sites Act, fails to empower local authorities and communities in appropriately resolving the dereliction and neglect caused by these eyesores. This Council calls on the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to conduct a review of the relevant legislation and practice in the area and, on the basis of such a review, to introduce changes to redress the balance between the interest of developers and those of local communities.
That this Council rejects the proposal by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to abolish South Dublin County Development Board, through the legislation to provide for a directly elected Mayor for the Dublin Region, requests the Manager to convey this view to the Minister, and to include with the correspondence to the Minister a document setting out the achievements of the South Dublin CDB in the years since it was set up, including evidence on the advances in inter agency collaboration in the County arising from the work of the Board, and further requests that copies of the correspondence and documentation sent to the Minister be sent to the Managers of the other 3 Local Authorities in the Dublin Region.
Mayor's Business
That this Council calls on the Taoiseach Brian Cowen to immediately reinstate 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 with the ongoing drug crisis, that they are not alone and that he will return to the former partnership that once existed between Government and the Community.
That this Council
* reaffirms its support for Tallaght Hospital as a vital public healthcare facility
* deplores the failure in Tallaght Hospital to read thousands of x-rays and to process thousands of GP referral letters
* welcomes the inquiry into how this happened and the proposal to appoint a new board
* urges that the inquiry should include within its remit:
- a full exploration and exposure of any or all administrative and/or clinical management failures which may have led to this serious breakdown
- the need for greater accountability on the part of consultants and recommendations as to how full compliance with the consultants' contract, restricting work in the private health sector, can be monitored and fully implemented;
* calls for an end to the two-tier public/private hospital system and the development of a new single-tier system with access for all based on medical need alone
* opposes any effort to downgrade and remove services from Tallaght Hospital
* urges the provision of essential resources to ensure that the Hospital can provide safe and effective services to patients including, if required, additional radiologists.
*supports a quicker and more transparent system of Doctor’s referral letters to the hospital and urges the immediate introduction and formal use of email
*calls for the resignation or sacking of Health Minister Mary Harney before another Health crisis emerges
That this Council values the work done by Community Development Projects in the County over recent years in addressing issues of disadvantage, social exclusion and inequality, including work and projects done in collaboration with the Council, disagrees with the funding cuts imposed by the Government in the last year, and shares many of the concerns of those involved as workers and volunteers in Community Development Projects about the new arrangements which are being put in place under the new Local Development Programme, and their concerns that a consequence of the new arrangements and reduced funding may be to pull resources from the most needy communities in the County. Accordingly we request the Manager to convene, at an early date, a suitable Meeting/Seminar which will enable a dialogue to take place between Council Management/Staff and Councillors and representatives of Community Development Projects in the County and representatives of the CPLN and Dodder Valley Partnerships, and other relevant organisations, with an objective of the meeting being to assist the Council in updating its own approach to Community Development in the County and making appropriate representations to the new Government Minister with responsibility for the sector.
That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion by way of a Headed Item in keeping with the objective of the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee as per my motion passed at the September 2009 Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee, and debated at the October 2009 Council Meeting where it was agreed to review my request for a new Part 8 planning process at the April 2010 Council Meeting for a left-out turn from Tandy's Lane Lucan onto the N4 in the interest of a more favourable road network and better movement of local traffic in Lucan.
That this Council, in light of existing derelict sites in the county, including the McHugh's Site in Greenhills, and the likelihood of further sites in the coming months and years, notes that existing legislation, including the 1990 Derelict Sites Act, fails to empower local authorities and communities in appropriately resolving the dereliction and neglect caused by these eyesores. This Council calls on the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government to conduct a review of the relevant legislation and practice in the area and, on the basis of such a review, to introduce changes to redress the balance between the interest of developers and those of local communities.
That this Council rejects the proposal by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to abolish South Dublin County Development Board, through the legislation to provide for a directly elected Mayor for the Dublin Region, requests the Manager to convey this view to the Minister, and to include with the correspondence to the Minister a document setting out the achievements of the South Dublin CDB in the years since it was set up, including evidence on the advances in inter agency collaboration in the County arising from the work of the Board, and further requests that copies of the correspondence and documentation sent to the Minister be sent to the Managers of the other 3 Local Authorities in the Dublin Region.
That this Council
* reaffirms its support for Tallaght Hospital as a vital public healthcare facility
* deplores the failure in Tallaght Hospital to read thousands of x-rays and to process thousands of GP referral letters
* welcomes the inquiry into how this happened and the proposal to appoint a new board
* urges that the inquiry should include within its remit:
- a full exploration and exposure of any or all administrative and/or clinical management failures which may have led to this serious breakdown
- the need for greater accountability on the part of consultants and recommendations as to how full compliance with the consultants' contract, restricting work in the private health sector, can be monitored and fully implemented;
* calls for an end to the two-tier public/private hospital system and the development of a new single-tier system with access for all based on medical need alone
* opposes any effort to downgrade and remove services from Tallaght Hospital
* urges the provision of essential resources to ensure that the Hospital can provide safe and effective services to patients including, if required, additional radiologists.
*supports a quicker and more transparent system of Doctor’s referral letters to the hospital and urges the immediate introduction and formal use of email
*calls for the resignation or sacking of Health Minister Mary Harney before another Health crisis emerges
That this Council values the work done by Community Development Projects in the County over recent years in addressing issues of disadvantage, social exclusion and inequality, including work and projects done in collaboration with the Council, disagrees with the funding cuts imposed by the Government in the last year, and shares many of the concerns of those involved as workers and volunteers in Community Development Projects about the new arrangements which are being put in place under the new Local Development Programme, and their concerns that a consequence of the new arrangements and reduced funding may be to pull resources from the most needy communities in the County. Accordingly we request the Manager to convene, at an early date, a suitable Meeting/Seminar which will enable a dialogue to take place between Council Management/Staff and Councillors and representatives of Community Development Projects in the County and representatives of the CPLN and Dodder Valley Partnerships, and other relevant organisations, with an objective of the meeting being to assist the Council in updating its own approach to Community Development in the County and making appropriate representations to the new Government Minister with responsibility for the sector.
That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion by way of a Headed Item in keeping with the objective of the Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee as per my motion passed at the September 2009 Lucan/Clondalkin Area Committee, and debated at the October 2009 Council Meeting where it was agreed to review my request for a new Part 8 planning process at the April 2010 Council Meeting for a left-out turn from Tandy's Lane Lucan onto the N4 in the interest of a more favourable road network and better movement of local traffic in Lucan.