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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 14, 2008

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor T. McDermott

To ask the Manager for a list of the Bye-Laws currently in force in the County, when each was last revised, to explain how a new Bye-Law is introduced, how a change to an existing Bye-Law is initiated and to indicate where may be inspected?

REPLY:

New Bye-Laws on the Presentation of Household and Commercial Waste were introduced in 2007.  The Bye-Laws on the Presentation of Household Waste went before the Council in September 2007 and came into force on 8th November 2007.   The Bye-Laws on the Presentation of Commercial Waste went before the Council in September 2007 and came into force 12th December 2007.

Prior to these Bye-Laws coming into force there was a consultation period which involved a Presentation to the Environment SPC on 2nd May 2007 and was advertised in the local Newspapers during that period also.  This was followed by a six weeks consultation period where members of the public were invited to make submissions. 

While these are the most recent bye-laws there are also others that have been inexistence for a much longer period:-

Bye-Laws for the Control, Regulation, Supervision and Administration of Casual Trading.  These came into force on 10th June 1998 and are provided for in the Casual Trading Act 1995.

Bye-Laws for the Control of Horses came into force on 30th August 1997 and are provided for in the Control of Horses Act 1996.

Bye_laws for the Management of Water Services and Conservation of Drining Water came into force on 15th December 2005 and is provided for under the Local Government Act 1994.

Details of all bye-laws relating to Environmental Services are available on the Council's Website