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To ask the Manager if he can advise members on the costs incurred by the Council in having maintenance work carried out in Esker Cemetery to date in 2009, and how these costs are divided between payments to contractors and the use of the Council's own staff and materials?
To ask the Manager if he will provide a report setting out details of road sweeping, handcart litter collections, clean-ups carried out on a regular basis to manage litter, illegal dumping in the Quarryvale area, including Quarryvale Park?
To ask the Manager if he will make a report on services provided in Foxdene, Méile an Rí, Buirg an Rí and Tór an Rí to manage litter, keep the area tidy and combat illegal dumping?
That the Manager give an update of any increase in activity at the Volunteer Centre and outline any positive implications that are likely for the Lucan/Palmerstown and Clondalkin communities.
This Committee calls on the Manager, in light of ongoing complaints regarding anti social behaviour in Tymon Park, including the burning of Council property in the form of refuse bins, and while remaining cognisant of the financial cost to the Council and the hardship caused to local residents, to explore new ways of dealing with these issues including liaising with local Garda to put a stop to them without further delay.
That this Committee supports efforts being made to ensure that the residents of Adamstown have adequate community space and facilities available to them while they wait for the completion of their community facility.
That this Council would agree to write to the Ministers for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, and Education and Science to remonstrate about the ongoing cut-backs in Education, including in the Lucan/Clondalkin Area, that is affecting the quality of education of children, while at the same time there is no corresponding cut-backs in educating prisoners of this state, including in Portlaoise Prison, where in reply to a Parliamentary Question I requested to be tabled by Brian Hayes TD, the Minister of State has reported that the number of teachers engage in educating 113 prisoners is 19.64 (whole time equivalents) for the academic year 2009/10, and that this allocation is unchanged from previous years.
That this Committee supports the Board of Management, parents and staff of Esker Educate Together National School, in their efforts to secure a site in the Lucan area for the location of a permanent school, acknowledges that the current arrangement where the school occupies temporary accommodation in Adamstown Castle Educate Together NS will run into great difficulty from September 2010, and requests the Manager to write to the Minister for Education and Science urging him to acquire a suitable site for the school within the next 3 months.
That this Committee congratulate the Council workers for their good work over the Halloween period. That Management provide a report on the preventative and clean-up work associated with Halloween 2009 in the Lucan/Clondalkin area, including the cost of each and that the matter be fully discussed so that we can learn from the experience to the benefit of future years.
"That the Committee requests that traffic lights be installed at the entrance to Templeroan estate."
That the Manager responsible write to the HSE inviting that it provide a briefing to this Committee on the services provided by the HSE for children with special needs.
That this Area Committee acknowledges the need for the Minister to expedite the negotiations urgently towards a bilateral agreement with Ethiopia so that adoption of Ethiopian children by Irish families can continue, and supports those Irish families who are already in the process of, and committed to adopting children from Ethiopia, and appreciates these families deserve assurances that they can complete their adoptions under the current system, which is in line with The Hague Secretariat’s “Guide to Good Practice”? Such an assurance will be of great relief to many Irish families who have already embarked on this adoption process, some for as long as five years.
That this Committee congratulate the Council workers for their good work over the Halloween period, that Management provide a report on the preventative work and the clean-up work associated with Halloween 2009 including the cost of each and that the matter be fully discussed so that we can learn from the experience to the benefit of future years.
To thank the Manager for his very positive reply and action to my recent request for the sweeping and removal of leaves from the approach footpaths and roads to Lucan Village and also to the Litter Warden Ms. Helen McCarthy for her input into this matter.
That the situation along the area between the Covert and Kennelsfort Road be examined and whatever action is required (perhaps in conjunction with the Gardaí install CCTV) to bring it into and maintain it in a manner that reflects the fact that this is a residential area and a passage way for pedestrians. It is used as a hangout for anti-social behaviour including drinking parties and is perpetually strewn with empty beer cans, broken bottles, remnants of fires and general litter. Despite the best efforts of dedicated workers from this Council the area is a focal point for graffiti and is anything but a pleasant place to have to pass through or to live beside.
To ask the Manager to arrange a full clean up (of leaves, rubbish, etc) in Cappaghmore Estate, Clondalkin?
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That this Committee gives its full support to the North Clondalkin Safety Forum and the South West Safety Forum as separate entities supporting the local areas respectively.
To ask for an update on the 3 tonne limit proposal for Woodford area in Clondalkin?
That the rear walls and entrances at numbers 33 34 35 Oakwood Grove, Clondalkin be provided with the same security measures as residents of adjoining houses (no. 40 to 48 etc.). The residents are experiencing anti social activities of a serious nature from youths passing at rear on the new canal path.