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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor J. Lahart

"To ask the Manager to explain the poor level of maintenance in the Anne Devlin area, particularly with regard to the maintenance of open spaces adjacent to Anne Devlin Road and will the Manager commit to have the open spaces maintained according to the online schedule and to be maintained in conjunction with the road sweeping schedule?"

REPLY:

The open spaces in the Anne Devlin area are included in the Council's regular grass cutting schedule, which operates on a cycle of 3 weeks between grass cuts in accordance with SDCC on-line maintenance schedule.  In recent times due to difficulties encountered with plant and machinery associated with the grass cutting programme in the Rathfarnham District, the schedule was temporarily interrupted.  This has now been resolved. The open spaces have been inspected recently and were found to be maintained to a good standard. Every effort will be made to synchronise the grass cutting operation with the street sweeping schedule in the future although if grass is kept short there is little need for grass clippings to be removed from road surfaces.