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"To ask the Manager for an update on the Rathfarnham Quality Bus Corridor and to state with the aid of drawing the relocation and the finish proposed for the wall at Beaufort Downs open space. (b) to given an update on the request to provide a pedestrian crossing on Rathfarnham Road - adjacent to Crannagh in conjunction with this QBC?"
CORRESPONDENCE
(None received.)
CORRESPONDENCE
(None received.)
Cathaoirleach's Business
That this Committee recognising the weakness inherent in the present policing structures and in view of the overwhelming support among residents in Kingswood for the Garda Authorities in Tallaght to patrol and take responsibility for policing for the whole of the area, agrees to write and contact the relevent authorities, including the Garda Commissioner and the Justice Minister concerned, calling on them to urgently address and prioritise this issue, in the interest of improving the quality and the level of support for policing in the immediate area.
To ask the Manager in view of crisis facing the growing number of unemployed in the County and the inability of young apprentices to finish their trades will the Manager agree to review the Tallaght Integrated Area Plan model for Employment and Training and how this might be improved, the lesson learned and formerly adopted as a strategy and replicated in the County in future area plans?
"That this Committee discuss (with the aid of a current report) the lack of junk collections in the Rathfarnham Area with a view to developing a realistic programme for the area."
"That this Committee recommends that the pedestrian access/exit at Knocklyon Park on St. Colmcilles way be examined with a view to enabling buggies to exit with ease - they are having great difficulty at present. A queue builds up there in the morning with the numbers of parents/schoolchildren from Woodstown trying to exit in the morning, also to have the area adjacent to said gate cleaned up and landscaped."
"That this Committee recommends that the area around the Bring Bank on Grange Road/Sarah Curran Avenue be tarmaced and to upgrade the area with a few shrubs – This place is a mess and SDCC should be ashamed of it. I have been endeavouring for the past five years at least to have the area upgraded/moved – the responses i.e. the delay in negotiations with the OPW being continuously given as a reason for doing nothing is totally frustrating, in March 2008 I had the following response “One such option is an underground bring bank which will be trialled in Sean Walsh Park in the near future. This option may be more amenable to potential bring bank sites such as St. Enda's Car Park in the future”. That this Committee recommends that action to upgrade it be taken immediately."
That this Committee recommends that dog litter bins/bags/pooper scoopers be provided in the Rathfarnham Area. I was informed in 2008 that “the matter is being investigated by the Senior Engineer taking into account the health and safety aspects of handling/processing receptacles for hazardous materials such as dog waste”. If our neighbouring Councils and Councils all over Europe can provide them we should be able to provide them."
"That this Committee discusses (with the aid of an up to date researched report) the taking in charge of open space in Stonepark/Longwood with a view to speeding up the process. I was informed last year that this taking in charge would be finalized by early 2010. To state in the report the last time contact was made with the solicitors and the exact reasons for the delay - as residents are of the view the council is being given the 'run around' or that delaying tacticts are being used to prevent the taking in charge."
"To ask the Manager for an up to date report on the current situation re bin collection in the Rathfarnham area
(a) to state how many customers have not had their bins chipped to date
(b) to state how many customers queries from the Rathfarnham area have not been satisfactorily completed to date – i.e. queries still outstanding?"
That this Area Committee, noting the decision of the Department of Education & Skills to initiate a review of the patronage of the long-awaited Lucan South second-level school and further noting that in a few years the combined Lucan and Adamstown area will likely require two additional second-level schools to cope with projected demand; calls on the Minister for Education & Skills to ensure that ALL children attending primary school in Lucan are guaranteed a second-level school place in Lucan and to achieve this recommends that the Minister make provision for two new second-level schools in Lucan South, one under VEC patronage and one under Educate Together patronage; and to achieve this by firstly fast-tracking the design, statutory planning and construction of a VEC non-designated Community College (on the site at Kishogue already disposed-off by this Council) which would be accessible to all children attending primary school in the geographic area of the parish of South Lucan; and secondly by seeking to acquire an additional site in the Lucan area for an Educate Together second-level school.
Proposed Declaration of Roads to be Public Roads
(No Business.)
NEW WORKS
(No Business.)
CORRESPONDENCE
(None received.)
"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?