To ask the Manager to report on what recent representations this Local Authority has made to the Government given the increasing traffic congestion being experienced by motorists in South Dublin and the consequential negative impact on the quality of life of the families of this county. Arising from any such representations, what improvements can be expected by the people of South Dublin and within what time frame?

• Q.5 Traffic Congestion

Letter, dated 20th April 2006 from Killarney Town Council regarding motion passed calling on the Government to give Free Travel Passes to Irish emigrants living abroad and also to recognise Irish emigrants reaching the age of one hundred years.

(circulated herewith)

• Killarney Town Council

Cathaoirleach's Business

(No Business)

Cathaoirleach's Business

(No Business)

"To ask the Manager to deal with the request of the resident of 13 Knocklyon Avenue regarding the trees outside his home, in view of the  fact that the Manager undertook to remove every second tree along the path at this location and I confirmed by e-mail dated 15 October 2005 that the resident was agreeable to this?"

• Q.8

Cathaoirleach's Business

(No Business)

To ask the Manager to report on the country-wide plastic collection services, what improvement can be reported in this service and to what extent Local Residents of this county can expect the plastic collection-point service to be enhanced in the near future?

• Q3 County-wide Plastic Collection

Cathaoirleach's Business:  Councillor A. White

"That the Manager now present a report to the committee ( in view of the fact that it is now over one year since a Working Group was established in relation to the outbuildings at Rathfarnham Castle - see Area Committee Meeting 2, April 2005)  detailing how often the Working Group has met, what issues have been addressed by it, and what conclusions it has reached arising from its deliberations." 

• M.3

To ask the Manager to present a full and detailed report on the full extent of the anti-social related problems in South Dublin on the various departments in this County, including all costs associated with such damages?

• Q4 ASB Countywide

To ask the Manager, to list the number of Council owned houses and apartments that have been damaged by fire over the past two years and list the corresponding causes identified for each of these fires and can the Manager make a statement on the matter?

• Q6 Fire Damage
• Q6 Fire damage statistics

"To ask the Manager to revisit item no. 3384 (Area Committee 1, 24th October 2005) regarding a mains drain adjacent to 488 Orwell Park Way, since although a crew addressed same in January by opening the drain, cleaning it, chipping away some surrounding tarmac and placing an orange cone on top of same, it visually now looks worse than before, and the drain is subsiding in the tarmac, and it  would appear not to have been repaired in view of the fact that the road still floods when there is heavy rainfall."

• Q.11

To ask the Manager, (A) to list the total number of Housing Estates in the County that have been taken in charge in the last twelve months and (B) to list the dates these Estates were built and (C) taking into consideration progress made towards further taking in charge how many other Estates are envisaged to be taken in charge in the next twelve months?

• Q7 Housing Estates TIC

To ask the Manager, to identify the reasons for the extremely significant changes in the calculations for Council tenants rent payments which has resulted in some households rents increasing by almost one hundred percent and can he make a statement on the matter?

• Q8 Revised Rent Calculation

To ask the Manager, to report on progress made in relation to housing refurbishment programmes currently taking place within the County identifying the number of units refurbished to date in each area and are these numbers in line with the timeframes given at the commencement of the individual programmes?

• Q9Housing refurbishment programmes

"That this Committee, calls on the Manager to arrange for houses 442-449 Cushlawn Park to be given priority in terms of the refurbishment programme as these houses are being directly affected by the infill development currently under construction which is causing major disruption to the families involved".

• Motion 3

To ask the Manager to outline what locations are available within the South Dublin County Council area for the receipt of  "small builders rubble", what are their opening hours and what charges are in effect for receipt of such rubbish?

• Q 20 Small Builders Rubble

To ask the Manager to outline the process and procedures involved where a resident, as the result of illness or age related problems, applies to the Council for a grant to adjust their home or add an extension?

• Q 21Grants

To ask the Manager to explain the delay in processing and approving grants that would enable the sick and the elderly carry out essential adjustments and/or extensions to their place of residence so that they may live as comfortably as possible and be cared for by their family in their own community and to include in her answer how the Council proposes to remedy the situation, given the fact  that such cases are practically always extremely urgent and that the present situation is unsustainable and a source of great trauma both to the sick and to their families?

 

• Q 22 Grants

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the planned transfer of those in receipt of Rent Allowance onto a Council administered scheme for private tenants, and if he can advise who can go on the Council administered scheme and how people can apply?

• Q 23 Rent Allowance

To ask the Manager if he will make a report on the criteria and conditions which will apply to purchasers of housing units sold under the Affordable Housing Initiative( Sustaining Progress)  in April 2006, where units are sold by purchasers within ten years of purchase and if the criteria and conditions which apply to "clawback" are the same as in the case of the other two streams of Affordable Housing operated by the Council?

• Q24 Affordable Housing initative