COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

QUESTION NO.27

QUESTION: Councillor E. Higgins

To ask the Manager if he will present an updated report on work done by the Council to remove graffiti throughout Lucan and Palmerston in the last year and if he will advise if there has been a reduction in the number of incidents of graffiti, what funding has been made available to these areas from the Anti Litter and Graffiti Awareness Funding, how much of this work has been outsourced and what measures are being implemented to tackle graffiti hotspots?

REPLY:

In the year from 1st June, 2010 to 31st May, 2011 a total of 60 reports of graffiti were tackled in the Lucan/Palmerstown area with 48 in the preceding year for the same area.

The work is carried out either by the Council's Graffiti Removal Team or the Probation Services.  No work was outsourced during this period.

The Anti-Litter and Anti-Graffiti Awareness Grant for South Dublin County in 2010 was a total €57,143. This Scheme focuses on voluntary initiatives by community and environmental groups, and on involving schools and young people in anti-litter and anti-graffiti action and promotion of greater public awareness and education.  All grant applications that were received and met the Department of Environment, Heritage & Local Government grant criteria were allocated funding with the two applications received from Lucan/Palmerstown provided with funding.  In addition, funding was provided to Safe Graffiti Removal Ltd. for community workshops on graffiti removal with free workshops advertised and available to Residents Associations, Community Groups and Tidy Towns Groups.

Notification of funding for the Anti-Litter and Anti-Graffiti Awareness grant 2011 has not yet been received from the Department. 

Graffiti hotspots are targeted routinely by the removal teams when they are working in an area even when they have not necessarily received additional complaints about the particular area.