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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 16, 2012

QUESTION NO. 17

QUESTION: Councillor G. O'Connell

To ask the Manager for an outline of the proposed extended street cleaning programme for 2012 and to show how this will effect the existing "handcart" service and to name the areas that will be cleaned and how often?

REPLY:

The road-sweeping contract was tendered in late 2011 with a view to appointing the Contractor in February 2012. The contract was revised to include for greater flexibility of the services as required by the Council, additional weed removal in all areas and an extension to the duration of the leaf clearance operation.

The Council utilises the services of both the Operations Unit, and the Cleansing Unit based in Ballymount Depot in conjunction with a Private Contractor who has dedicated teams that operate an extensive street-cleaning programme on main roads, local roads and estates. The Council’s Cleansing staff target central locations in Lucan and Palmerstown using Handcart, green machine and litter bin operatives.

It is the Council’s intention to schedule the works programme for the Operations and Cleansing Units in accordance with the regular road-sweeping schedule as well as tying in with the Parks Section grass cutting schedules.  Currently, housing estates are swept 4 times a year and gullies are cleaned once a year on a scheduled basis.  This works programme will ensure that areas can be cleaned in the interim periods between scheduled sweeps and indicators developed to enable an ongoing review of the level of resources and nature of the operations required.

As part of the Councils Litter Management Plan, there will be a number of campaigns aimed at reducing the level of littering within the County, thereby reducing the resources required to cleanup after offenders and allowing the staff to be used in other operations.