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Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Adelaide
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

To ask the chief executive what proportion of workers employed by the council in 2022, 2023 and 2024 were contract workers as opposed to permanent members of staff.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Adelaide
Responsibility:
Director of Housing, Social and Community Development

To ask the chief executive how many homes SDCC is leasing from private owners for use as social homes, and the related cost to leasing these homes.

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor N. Whelan
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

This council calls on the chief executive to immediately reverse the policy of removing public bins from this county as a method of reducing illegal dumping of domestic waste and requests that all public bins removed for this reason are replaced as a matter of urgency.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Adelaide
Responsibility:
Director of Housing, Social and Community Development

To ask the chief executive how much was spent in 2022, 2023, and 2024 purchasing homes for use as social housing and how many units were purchased.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor D. Adelaide
Responsibility:
Director of Housing, Social and Community Development

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on vacant homes, report to include how many vacant homes have been identified and how many have being brought back into use?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on measures in place to reduce congestion and parking on school routes. Report to include plans to improve congestion and safety on roads leading to and from schools, outside the school gate, and in surrounding estates.

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the progress, broken down by electoral area, of the cyclical programme planned street tree maintenance. The report to include whether all roads and estates scheduled for maintenance in 2023 and 2024 will be completed by end of this year and to outline the level of resources, both internal and external, being deployed by the Council in 2024 to implement the programme?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
Director of Housing, Social and Community Development

To ask The Chief Executive for a report on the SDCC housing stock. Report to include what is the status of merging the Windows and Doors program into the Energy Efficient Retro Fit program?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the management and conduct of local elections including the management of polling stations, the count, etc. Report to include if there will be an opportunity for candidates, agents, tally volunteers and polling station and count staff to provide feedback on relevant matters?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive to report on the number of outstanding footpath repair requests recorded by the Council, broken down by electoral area. Report to include the process for inspection and prioritising of request, the number of requested defects which he expects will be repaired in 2024?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor C. Brady
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive about the efforts being taken by the Council, including through engagement with telecom providers, to remove telephone kiosks and other eyesores that have been negatively impacting the scores of Tidy Towns groups across the county in the National Tidy Towns Competition?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Johansson
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

That the Chief Executive initiate Compulsory Purchase Order proceedings on all sites that are on the Derelict Sites Register (as published 20/06/2024)

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Johansson
Responsibility:
Director of Housing, Social and Community Development

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the number of social housing 4 beds expected to be coming on stream in the next 12 months and in what LEA they will be located?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor M. Johansson
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

To ask the Chief Executive how much was recovered by the council in Vacant or Derelict Sites Levies in 2023 and how much is currently outstanding?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor L. Dunne
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

To ask the Chief Executive are there plans to increase the Trades workforce within the Council?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on Date Centres operating in SDCC administrative area. Report to include how many are currently operating and how many are in the planning process?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
Director of Environment, Water and Climate Change

To ask the Chief Executive if all-weather pitches planned for installation will include microplastic containing infill materials which have been banned in the EU from September 2031 because of their impact on nature and potential risk of cancer?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
E////Director of Land Use, Planning and Transportation

To ask the Chief Executive to explain the reasoning behind the delay in implementing a motion that was passed which requires a site notice to be erected for each planning application?

Question
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor L. Dunne
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

To ask the Chief Executive when will the reestablishment of the Apprenticeship Scheme commence?

Motion
Meeting:
Submitted by:
Councillor J. Spear
Responsibility:
Director of Corporate Performance and Change Management

That Council agrees to make South Dublin County Council an apartheid-free zone and boycott all Israeli goods.