COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

MOTION NO. 3

MOTION: Councillor P. Cosgrave

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That the Manager request the Litter warden to survey the area at lunchtimes along Ballyboden Road near the Topaz garage and Pizza hut through Ballyroan Lodge to Hillside Park and Colaiste Eanna Secondary school. The area and the Owendoher river is badly littered by school goers at lunchtimes. Could some of the litter bins close to the area be moved closer to the school footfall."

REPORT:

The Council's Anti Litter Warden recently patrolled the area along Ballyboden Road through Ballyroan Lodge and Hillside Park before and immediately following school lunch hour. In the course of his patrol, the Anti Litter Warden observed pupils from various schools in the area dropping litter on footpaths along this route and also observed pupils depositing litter over the wall at Ballyroan Lodge.

There are four schools in the vicinity of this route who have all obtained Litter and Waste Flags from our Environmental Awareness Section, these are as follows:

  1. Colaiste Eanna
  2. Sancta Maria
  3. Scoil Naomh Padhraig
  4. Ballyroan Boys School

The Environmental Awareness Section contacted each of the four no. schools in the past month  following on a complaint received about litter  in the same area, offering a further environmental awareness talk to  pupils on litter and waste.  Only one of the schools availed of this offer and a talk was presented to an assembly of younger students who might not have been in the school when the school in question received their Litter and Waste flag.  In light of the findings of SDCC's Anti Litter Warden, further contact will now be made with the remaining three no. schools in the area recommending that the school avail of further environmental awareness talks.

The  Council's Senior Executive Parks Superintendent has been requested to investigate the possibility of re-positioning the litter bins closer to the school footfall.