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That this Council aligns its support with RAID (Rathcoole Against Incinerator Dioxins) as this will effect the entirety of the South Dublin County. Can the Council offer some figures in relation to the size of the incinerator when compared to other incinerators around Europe? Even if the Council objects, does the final decision rest with the EPA as to whether or not the incinerator is given the go-ahead?
To ask the Manager to provide figures for the number of ratepayers who have not payed their rates for 2008 as a percentage of the overall number of rate payers in the County and can he/she make a statement on what impact if any these figures have on the Council's finances?
That the Manager arranges to have the mature trees planted (that have been promised to be done during this planting season) at the Gantry on the N4 close to the Coppice and the M50 Intersection and to have the clay removed from the open space adjacent to the N4 and to the rear of Hollyville, Old Lucan Road as it is a health and security hazard.
DECLARATION OF ROADS TO BE PUBLIC ROADS
(no reports)
PROPOSED DISPOSAL OF PROPERTIES/SITES
a) Proposed Disposal of Affordable Dwellings
b) Proposed Disposal of lands at Grange, Clondalkin to Coras Iompar Eireann. Variations of Certain Terms & Conditions.
"To ask the Manager to look at the possibility of installing pedestrian traffic lights near the roundabout between the Deerpark and Marfield Estates in order to facilitate residents from the Deerpark Estate to cross to the local shops and if the Manager will make a statement on the matter?"
Kiltipper Traffic Assessment
Proposed Initiation of Procedure to Extinguishment the Public Right of Way on land at the front of 1 Sylvan Drive, Kingswood, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
That this committee supports the hosting of an informal reception for the two students, Matthew Carpenter and Karl Ussher who were hailed as heroes by local papers and the public at large for intervening in the attack on a bus driver in Cork street on the weekend of the 11th January and the matter be discussed.
Quarterly Anti Social Behaviour Report
Cathaoirleach's Business.
That the Manager would provide an up-to-date report for discussion on the Council's efforts to have the Liffey Valley lands, including at St. Edmundsbury, Woodville and Fonthill, preserved against housing development. Following the passing of my Motions, including at the June 2008 Planning Department Meeting: "That this Committee requests the Manager to write to the Minister for the Environment and Local Government requesting the Minister to make a Ministerial Order, under Section 202 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, to make further Special Amenity Area Order(s) to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands in South Dublin, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, particularly in view of the unanimous decision of South Dublin County Council expressed in the Motion passed in South Dublin County Council on 10th March 2008, including “it is wholly undesirable that any future housing developments take place in the Liffey Valley, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, that would undoubtedly further damage the Liffey Valley Park as did, for example, the earlier housing developments at Laraghcon”, in the interest of the preservation of these lands, and that this Committee also requests the Manager to specifically emphasise in this letter to the Minister the urgency of this request and specify in the request that this Ministerial Order for further Special Amenity Area Order(s) to preserve the Liffey Valley Lands, including at St. Edmundsbury and Woodville, is made prior to the commencement of the Review of the next County Development Plan, scheduled to commence in November 2008", this Council has since been requested by the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government by correspondents dated 10th September 2008, to carry out an evaluation of the lands between Palmerstown and Lucan Bridge in order to access the suitability of these lands for designation under the Special Amenity Area Order - would the Manager report on progress on this matter given the urgency as outlined in my repeated representations? This Committee requests the Manager to contact the Minister requesting that he exercise his powers and issue the appropriate order as a matter of urgency to preserve the Liffey Valley lands?
To ask the Manager if he will advise the Lucan Clondalkin Area Committee of the Council's plans to provide community facilities, including community centres and play facilities for children in the Council's housing development at Balgaddy?
To ask the Manager if he can provide members with information on any lands/properties in the Lucan-Clondalkin Electoral Areas, which the Council has completed disposal of in 2008 (apart from small disposals to individual householders), and if he can advise of the monies realised from such disposals?
To ask the Manager for a report on the consultative phase of the review of the County Development Plan and to include in the report a summary of the numbers attending and issues raised?
To ask the Manager if there has been any request from the Department of Education and Science to purchase a piece of Council owned land for the purpose of providing a site for the proposed Lucan South 2nd Level School. following the site meeting in December 2008 between Department and Council officials, and if he will make a statement on the matter?
To ask the Manager to present a detailed report for discussion on the School Transportation Scheme proposed by this Council's Strategic Policy Committee on Transportation and adopted by South Dublin County Council? Would the Manager not agree that School Transportation is the best way forward in combating the increased traffic congestion on our roads, particularly at school times, the growing car congestion at schools, often in residential estates, owing to the great number of parents who have to resort to driving children and students to school, and the increased demands and stresses on parents at school times? This Committee now requests the Manager to again ask the Government to provide funding for South Dublin's School Transportation Pilot Project, that itself could be a viable pilot project for School Transportation in the greater Dublin region?
“To ask the Manager to state the total number of dumping instances that have been brought to the attention of the litter warden section along Daletree Road over the past three months, if he can confirm that some of the dumped material was set alight over the Christmas period, and the total number of legal proceedings which South Dublin County Council is in the process of taking against those involved in this activity, where an investigation of the material has occurred, if the escalating problem of dumping at this location has been brought to the attention of the Council by the local community, and if he can confirm that the CCTV system promised to be introduced close to the social housing units at Daletree have now been installed by the Council in respect of monitoring illegal activity so that the local authority can take action, and if he will make a statement on the matter?”
To ask the Manager if there have been any recent pre-planning meetings with the owners of the lands covered by the Liffey Valley Local Area Plan, if any planning applications are imminent,and if he will make a statement on the matter?
Cathaoirleach's Business
No Business
To ask the Manager if the issues I raised in June (that the Council address the run down state of the roadway and footpaths bordering and within Roselawn Estate, Ballydowd) have been included in the 2009 works programme as indicated in the Manager’s report in June?