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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, September 08, 2014

QUESTION NO.10

QUESTION: Councillor C. King

"To ask the Chief Executove to report on what measure can be taken to improve our (Tallaght) rating on the IBAL surveys as we have dropped quite significantly in the last two ratings which seems to have undone all the hard work done by the Council previously - understanding that there must be a 'tie-in' from the local Community?".

REPLY:

The recent IBAL result for Tallaght is disappointing. However analysis show that there are some very positive elements in the report with certain sites including the recycling facility in the Square, the Village Green Shopping centre and Tallaght Village receiving Class A status.

Efforts will continue to be made by the Council to tackle the problem individual sites identified by IBAL (in both public and private ownership), and the wider issue of litter in conjunction with the community, schools, businesses and individuals.

The Green Schools programme is operating in Tallaght with 62% of primary schools and 55% of secondary schools with Green Flags. Community groups are active in community clean ups as the figures hereunder demonstrate

                         Tallaght Central                   Tallaght South

2012                            82                                     105

2013                            37                                     314

2014                            68                                     161