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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE (1)

Monday, September 20, 2010

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor C. Brophy

"To ask the Manager to outline the number of litter bins that have been provided in the last year in Tallaght Central and if there is any problem with the provision of new litter bins?"

REPLY:

No additional  litter bins have been installed in the County to date in 2010.  Under the national industrial action throughout the public sector which was in place for most of the first six months of the year the installation and servicing of new litter bins was rejected by staff unions on the grounds that it constituted additional work for their members.  Since the signing of the Croke Park Agreement which brought the national work to rule to an end the staff unions have notified Council management that it is their intention to continue to refrain from engaging in additonal work including the installation and servicing of new / additional litter bins. Management are in discussions attempting to bring this industrial action to an end.  The county has been surveyed and a full list has been prepared of the priority areas where any new bins should be installed when a solution to the current issues is found.