Public Lighting Progress Report on the LED Energy Efficiency Upgrade Programme

"To ask the Manager, when Corbally & Westbrook Estate, Citywest will be taken in Charge? It was stated last year that this would happen in 2022. Has this process commenced and when does the Council envision this to be completed?"

• Corbally and Westbrook TIC

"Can the manager arrange to have the trees cut back in whitestown industrial estate?"

• Whitestown industrial estate trees

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on how many electrical boxes/controller case that were commissioned for use under the Dublin Canvas 'Paint a Box' project have been painted over in error this year. Report to confirm if the artists and Dublin Canvas were contacted in relation to this and apologised to?

• Q1 Dublin Canvas Project

"Can the manger arrange parking bays on the road be repainted at sacred heart school as they as they are not visible in some areas?"

• Sacred Heart NS

That this committee calls on the manager to have the road signs in the Cypress Downs area of Templeogue inspected with a view to replacing them as soon as possible.

• M11 Cypress Downs Signage

This Council agrees to run an education and awareness campaign to keep pedestrians and cyclists safe on mountain and pathway-free roads this summer.

Further to previous motions and questions submitted. To now ask the manager that greater clarification be provided, giving clear commitment that the remaining grass / kickabout (unofficial pitch) area beside the clubhouse on the Newcastle Road, will be reinstated to a suitable playing pitch condition, and that this committee agree in the interim to locating a temorary container facility and portaloo to the lower end of the park and until the completion of phase 2 of the teenspace works, in meeting the needs of young players between the ages of 4-9yrs.

• M12 GVP kickabout area

To ask the manager to provide an update report on the undergrounding of electricity pylons through Clondalkin and running alongside the Kildare railway line via Clonburris, Kishogue and Adamstown Lucan, and for this report to detail the timeline for this project and description of works involved.

• Q1 Undergrounding electricity lines

Resolution to make the South Dublin County Development Plan 2022 - 2028

• HI 4

Chief Executive's Amendments

• HI 3

Chief Executive's Report

• HI 1

This County Council agrees a vote of thanks to the staff of South Dublin County Council for their hard work and dedication, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

That this Council calls on the Taoiseach to immediately implement a set of measures to tackle the Cost of Living Crisis that is Devastating Families across the State from both Working and Middle Class Demographics, which has seen 70% increases in Heating Oil, 30% increase in Gas, 25% increase in Electricity, 8% Increase in Rents and €1,200 average increase in petrol prices for the average driver along with increases in Groceries and other Essential Goods. This has resulted in the Highest inflation rates in 20 years of more than 5,5% and that's without the Governments scandalous proposed increases in Carbon Tax at a time of crisis. These measures at the least should include: The introduction of a living wage, the introduction of a cost of living payment based on annual income, the scrapping of Carbon Tax Increases, a ban on Rent increases for 3 years, Increase in Fuel allowance criteria, Removal of VAT on Energy Bills during winter Months, the Establishment of a discretionary utility debt Fund. These measures should form a base for tackling the crisis for struggling Families across the State.

That this Council confirms its pride in, and continued support for, Ireland's traditional policy of military neutrality, and writes to the Taoiseach to declare these views

That this Council supports the decriminalisation of drug use, meaning that people will no longer be made criminals simply because of their use of a drug: that people's drug use should be dealt with as a public health issue rather than as a criminal issue and that the resources currently used to process the 72% of drug convictions that are for personal possession should be redirected to treatment and support services and to more effective policing of the drugs trade. We commit to sending this motion to the Minister for Justice and the Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and the National Drugs Strategy for their consideration and response.

An increase on Carbon Taxes of €7.50 was announced in Budget 2022, from €33.50 to €41.00 per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted. The increase applies from 13 October 2021 for auto fuels and 1 May 2022 for all other fuels and is set to rise to €100 per tonne emitted by 2030.  The carbon Tax is not tackling the environmental damage caused by the producers and profiteers of fossil fuel emissions, including the approximate 14 Data Centres, and major pharmaceutical companies listed in the South Dublin County Council area. It is another tax on workers and energy that hits the poorest and those on limited incomes hardest, and is exacerbating the cost-of-living crisis. It represents the opposite of a “just transition”.

This council calls for the scrapping of the carbon tax increases due from May 2022 and the reversal of 2021 increases. We call for immediate direct taxation of a national or local variety on big polluters, the implementation of increased price controls on energy for households,  and a rapid shift to renewable energies under public ownership and communicates this motion to the Minister for Environment, Climate, Communication Transport, and The Minister for Local Government and Heritage.

This Council calls on central government to make the funding available ASAP to complete the necessary works on all boarded up/derelict houses owned by SDCC returning them to Council stock. Considering the emergency housing crisis the country finds itself in this matter needs to be considered a point of priority.

That this Council requests the Chief Executive to write to the Taoiseach, The Minister of State for Local Government and the Minister of State for Electoral Reform requesting that legislated candidate gender quotas of 40% be introduced to apply to the local elections in 2024.

This Council calls on the Chief Executive to review and change the Councils current Housing Policy which only allows Social housing/HAP applicants to access the higher homeless rate of HAP 6 weeks before the applicant's Notice to Quit is enacted. Taking into account the length of time it is taking for families/couples/individual's to find private accommodation, this change will allow for the applicants to access the higher homeless rate of HAP from the date of issue of the NTQ to the Council.