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To ask the Chief Executive if the construction of an outdoor community theatre style in areas around the county has been considered, and if the Cheif Executive would be supportive of examining them as a way to introduce the arts into the open community spaces.
The period of the pandemic had seen unprecedented hardships for most, with workers in the public and private sector leading the fight against Covid which illustrated clearly what workers are the most valuable in society. Corporations such as Pfizer, Amazon, Microsoft, and many retail giants have made unprecedented profits while PUP payments have been eliminated, rents, house prices and the cost of living have continued to rise and workplace precarity has increased. This Council supports the introduction of a Covid wealth tax to fund directly into public services and the provision of public sector wage increases and agrees to write to all other councils, the Taoiseach and the Minister of Finance stating our position. We point particularly to the significant role played by unpaid student nurses.
To ask the Chief Executive to list how many tidy towns exist in our county, to list them all and to report on how much funding has been granted to each over the last five years.
To ask the Chief Executive to confirm the number of planning applications that have granted in Adamstown SDZ to date and in each application granted how many of these same applications were further amendment whereby additional units were added on. To give an overall total of these additional units.
To ask the Chief Executive to give a detailed report on the budget provided to biodiversity since the pollinating policy was adopted/initiated. to include expenditure to date per area and per project and details of pollinating projects that are budgeted for in each area.
Over the last 18 months+ we all experienced challenges in our parks in particular the demand put on our public litter bins/litter bin service. Can then Chief Executive confirms to members as to when litter bins (their size, colour, shape etc) were last reviewed.
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Confirmation & Re-affirmation of Minutes of Meeting held on 7th September, 2021
To ask the Chief Executive how many housing transfers were complete in the past 12 months and how many of those were mutual transfers
To ask the Chief Executive how many people on the housing list are availing of HAP / Homeless Hap/ RAS
To ask the Chief Executive how many applicants currently on the housing list have never expressed interest in a property on CBL
That this Council approves the planting of a small Pocket Forest on the Green area opposite St. Colmcilles Primary School and the Church in Knocklyon.
That this Area Committee supports the objectives and intent of the Green Flag in Rathfarnham Castle Park by provisioning timed lighting for Rathfarnham Community Athletics Club in support of Section 6 of the Green Flag criteria 'Community Involvement' and also provisioning same in support of the objectives of Section 4 Environmental Management for the park as well as Section 2 objectives in support of a 'Healthy, Safe and Clean' park.
That the Chief Executive extend the accessible parking bay mobile phone number alert scheme, successfully piloted in Lucan, to the whole county in support of Operation Enable to further prevent misuse of accessible parking bays
To ask the Chief Executive whether the cycling infrastructure audit as part of Cycle South Dublin has yet been undertaken (as per response to a question at the October 2020 Council Meeting), whether this report will be published soon and will it be publicised in such a way as to make it easily accessible to anyone thinking about going for a cycle, on the SDCC website.
To ask the Chief Executive in view of the November 2021 deadline for the registration of Rights of Way with the Property Registration Authority - Has this Council taken steps to register Rights of Way of interest to the Council throughout the County, especially given the importance of outdoor recreation and walking in the context of wellbeing and climate change? And can the Chief Executive outline in his response the legal implications if Rights of Way are not registered with the Property Registration Authority.
To ask the Chief Executive to advise both the public and public representatives on the plans the cross departmental approach from SDCC over the coming weeks to try to ensure that communities can enjoy a safe and happy Halloween and would he care to make a statement on the matter?
That the Chief Executive adds an additional category to the FixYourStreet platform for access-related issues for people with disabilities.