To ask the Manager if he will outline the measures taken by the Council to ensure that the housing needs of approved applicants were taken into account by the developer and the selling agent in the sale of housing units under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) in April 2006, including measures to ensure that, as far as possible, the units offered to approved applicants were appropriate, in terms of number of bedrooms, to the number of family members, including children, of the approved applicants?

• Q25 Affordable Housing Initiative

To ask the Manager if he can advise if the estate agent involved in the selling of units under the Affordable Housing Initiative(Sustaining Progress) in April 2006 is being paid a fee in respect of the sale of each unit, how much was the fee, and was the fee included in the price of the units and paid by the purchasers, or was the fee paid by the developer, and if so did the developer absorb the total cost of the selling fees or was the cost of the fees paid from Council or exchequer funds?

• Q26 Affordable Housing initative

Letter, dated 13th April 2006 from Fingal County Council regarding motion passed expressing opposition to the provision of the Strategic Infrastructure Bill.

(circulated herewith)

• Fingal County Council

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

That this Council supports the Property Path initiative and is concerned that the  allocation/sale of housing units in April 2006 under the affordable housing under the Affordable Housing Initiative (Sustaining Progress) was done by a private Estate Agent rather than the Council's Property Path, and requests the Manager to make a report setting out measures put in place by the Council to ensure that the sale of the units was underpinned by principles of housing need, transparency of procedures, accountability on the part of the developer and the selling agent, and to report on what conditions were put in place regarding "clawback" in the event of the early re-sale of units. 

To ask the Manager to contact the Minister for the Environment and Local Government as a matter of urgency requesting an immediate review of Local Electoral boundaries in light of the massive democratic deficit that exists within the county with regard to the number of councillors allocated to each electoral area when population and voter numbers in each area are compared with other areas. Could the report presented to this meeting include a breakdown of the current situation?

• Q10 Review of LEA Boundaries

To ask the Manager to review the safety of all bridges that traverse roads within the county, with a view to assessing the need for the erection of decorative protective fencing to prevent the danger of objects falling on passing traffic?

• Q. 11 Bridge Cages

To ask the Manager to immediately ensure, from the date of today’s meeting onwards, that all Development Levies that are receipted in the Council’s Planning Department on a Countywide basis are also recorded in such a way as to enable a breakdown, electoral area by electoral area, to be provided to Councillors?

• Q12 Dev Contributions

To ask the Manager to report upon what changes have been made to the Council’s three year capital programme with regard to the future of the Council’s Water Leisure Strategy in light of the fact that most of the funding for future pools will have to be provided from Council resources? 

• Q13 Water Leisure Strategy

To ask the Manager to make a statement on the current procedure for the allocation of affordable housing within the county with regard to the need to ensure that the best use possible is made of the various sizes of housing units that become available and to make changes to the system that requires people to queue up over a number of nights in order to acquire housing?

• Q14 Allocation of Affordable Housing

That this Council requests the Manager to outline the projected expenditure accounted for in the 3 year Capital programme in each electoral area with regard to Community Parks and Libraries (programme 6) and development (programme 4) and insists that the obvious imbalance in the even distribution of the funding county-wide is immediately rectified.

That this Council requests the Manager to outline the projected expenditure accounted for in the 3 year Capital programme in each electoral area with regard to Community Parks and Libraries (programme 6) and development (programme 4) and insists that the obvious imbalance in the even distribution of the funding county-wide is immediately rectified.

That this Council requests the Manager to outline the projected expenditure accounted for in the 3 year Capital programme in each electoral area with regard to Community Parks and Libraries (programme 6) and development (programme 4) and insists that the obvious imbalance in the even distribution of the funding county-wide is immediately rectified.

To ask the Manager that the double yellow lines be extended/replaced at Monastery Road facing Statoil Garage and to continue to the entrance at Castle Crescent (Shops) Main Road, Clondalkin.

• Q.9

Proposed Extinguishment of Public Right of Way at 39/45 Lealand Avenue, Clondalkin.

• H.I.4

Proposed Extinguishment of Public Right of Way at 118/139/140 Arthur Griffith Park.

• H.I.5

In view of the reply to Motion No. 16 at the Lucan Clondalkin Area Committee Meeting of 25th October 2005 (a decision as to whether the handcart operatives should be increased), have we appointed/employed any extra handcart operatives?

• M 8

That a report be brought to this Committee regarding the Clondalkin Traffic Plan - Report to include details of parking areas and information regarding enforcement personnel and how many will be deployed.

Letter, from Cobh Town Council regarding motion passed calling on the Irish Government to support the Kennedy McCaine Bill in suppport of the undocumented Irish People in the US.

(circulated herewith)

• Cobh Town Council