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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 13, 2010

QUESTION NO.17

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the manager to detail the number the whole-time staff required to operate the current bin collection service, the number of dedicated whole-time staff currently employed on the bin collection service and the number of WTE working days lost to other work programmes under the management of the Environmental Services Department (e.g. litter-cleansing, cemetery maintenance, etc.) during 2010 as a result of staff from those programme areas being temporarily reassigned to ensure a full staffing compliment on all bin collection routes?

REPLY:

A total of 44 staff operate the 15 regular refuse collection routes that this Council provides each day.  There are currently 53 refuse collection staff, excluding supervisers and ancillary staff, and there is currently one permanent vacancy in the section.  When staff numbers available within the refuse section drop below the daily requirement of 44 then staff are transferred across, first from Burial Grounds and then from Cleansing if required, in order to complete the manning of the trucks and the collection of the routes.  A total of 376 man days in Burial grounds and 264 in Cleansing have been lost to refuse collection in 2010 to the end of August.

Following discussions in the Labour Relations Commission, the provision of data made available through the brown bin presentation data and the accompanying change in black bin presentation and the running of route optimisation software the operational requirements for the Refuse Service may alter significantly and reduce the accompanying impact on other sections of the service.