To ask the Manager for a updated report on the Refurbishment Programme being implemented in tenants' houses in Quarryvale?

• Refurbishment Programme

To ask the Manager when construction work will start on the building of the promenade and other works to enhance Lucan Weir?

• Lucan Weir

Cathaoirleach's Business

(none received)

To ask the Manager for a progress report on the All Weather Pitch project (initiated by Weston Hockey Club) in Griffeen Valley Park at Esker, Lucan?

• All Weather Hockey Esker

That the Lucan-Clondalkin Area Committee calls on the Manager to take the necessary steps to ensure that a start is made in 2007 on the provision of library facilities, including a conventional modern Regional Library and e-Learning Hubs, to serve the residents of Palmerstown and the north Clondalkin area and to have regard to the long held expectations of residents in these areas in regard to the provision of library services.

• Motion No. 11

That this Committee, in acknowledgment of the great interest in the care of horses and the lack of stable facilities in the area, supports in principle the provision of stable facilities for horses in the North Clondalkin and Bawnogue areas. Following local consultation, it is envisaged that 115 stables, 100 for rental purposes and 15 for the Centre itself, would be of adequate service to the area. That the Manager would agree to engage in discussion on this matter and conduct a feasibility study, the results of which would be brought for future discussion at a later Area Committee Meeting.

• mot 12

That the Manager would present a detailed report for discussion on all progress made and work completed on Graffiti removal in Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown, since the Graffiti Removal Crew was established. Specifically what works have been completed, and what works remain outstanding since the upsurge of Graffiti desecration in our community during the Christmas and New Year period, and what assistance has the Manager provided to Residents and Residents Associations where Graffiti damages has been caused to privately owned walls and lands.

• Graffiti

Cathaoirleach's Business

(none received)

That the Manager would bring forward for discussion a details report and draft design for the new facility in Griffeen Valley Regional Park Lucan, incorporating a Swimming Pool.  Would the Manager also signal the extent of the consultation process envisaged prior to this development taking place, to ensure that the development of this facility includes all that will be of benefit to the local community in Lucan.

• Lucan Swimming Pool

That this Committee is concerned with the persistent problem of littering, illegal dumping and graffiti along Ballyowen Lane, Lucan, and requests the Manager to provide a report on measures being taken by the Council to combat such anti-social behaviour, including actions to re-design and refurbish the area around the bollards at the junction of Ballyowen Lane and the Ballyowen Shopping Centre. 

• Ballyowen Lane

To ask the Manager if he has made any progress towards building a footpath between Cedar Lodge and the Esso Garage on Monastery Road, Clondalkin?

• Q. 13

"To ask the Manager could he please look at the possibility of placing double lights at the end of each cul de sac to Dodder Park, as a way of lighting up pedestrian entrances and exits to the Park and improving people's safety in the area and would he make a statement on the matter?"

• Q 10

“To ask the Manager to give an expected date for the opening of the Hunter’s Road/ Oldcourt Road, as this road was promised to be opened in the latter part of 2006, and those living in the Hunterswood, Ballycullen area have requested that this road be opened as soon as possible to provide some relief from the existing congestion that residents face on a daily basis in this area, and if he will make a statement on the matter?”

• Q.9

“To ask the Manager when his Department will be in a position to establish a yellow box on Fortunestown Lane with the junction at Carrigmore as a means of allowing residents in Carrigmore to enter and exit their Estate onto this busy Distributor Road, and if he could outline the likely time frame involved for the yellow box to be installed, and if he will make a statement on the matter?”

• Q. 10

"That this committee discusses the planning policy with regard to providing playgrounds in new developments with a view to ensuring that the area governed by the Ballyboden Village Plan includes a playground."

"That the Council builds on its recent successes in Rathfarnham with Pay Parking and replacement of the footpaths, that new litter bins be provided at regular intervals in the village as there are none since the footpath replacement work was carried out."

• M. 12

 

Report on Social and Affordable Housing

 

• Affordable Housing

To ask the Manager to give an update on the current insulation programme by South Dublin County Council to install proper insulation in all houses by a specific date, if he could give a breakdown of the number of houses that are expected to receive this new standard and what number are likely to be insulated to the new standard after 2007, and if he will make a statement on the matter? 

• Q10 Insulation Programme

"That the Manager report on any progress being made on my proposal some years ago about the idea for a boardwalk overlooking a stretch of the Dodder at Lr. Dodder Road."

"That this committee discusses the parking proposals for Pears Brother/ Palmer Park – ongoing prior to 1999. (b) to outline in the report the residents groups going to be contacted and when? (c) to outline what department is going to co-ordinate this –as it is a wider issue than any new housing development, taking into consideration plans have been developed previously by the Roads department.. (c) to outline in the report what assessment has been carried out on the submission on parking made by the Pearse Br. Park/Palmer Park residents association as part of the Ballyboden Village Plan? And to comment on same as such information is necessary prior to future meeting with the residents association."