COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 09, 2012

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor T. Delaney

To ask the Manager to outline what plans are in place to maintain the cemeteries in the county over the summer months considering the problems experienced in recent years?

REPLY:

The maintenance schedule for burial grounds during the period between May and September is based on the timetable for annual masses in each of the cemeteries with burial grounds staff organsied to concentrate on particular cemeteries in the period before the annual masses there. 

The sale of the refuse service has meant that the full complement of burial grounds staff can be deployed for burial grounds maintenance where previously staff from this section were used allocated to refuse collection duties when the need arose.  This, together with improved work scheduling, has resulted in improved maintenance for the burial grounds.