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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

"To ask the Chief Executive to report on investigations of the regular illegal dumping and burning of waste at the Hayden Lane/Hansted gate to Griffeen Valley Park; and to confirm if CCTV has been reconfigured to ensure monitoring of this specific location?"

REPLY: 

All reports of illegal dumping and littering are investigated by the Council’s Litter Warden Service and all dumped material is interrogated for evidence. Where evidence is found, the appropriate enforcement action is taken under the Litter Pollution Act 1997, as amended. 

To date in 2014, the Litter Warden Service has received and investigated six (6) complaints of illegal dumping in relation to Griffeen Valley Park and Hayden’s Lane, resulting in the issuing of four (4) fines. Local residents are urged and encouraged to support the Council in taking the appropriate enforcement action by making reports to the Litter Warden for investigation and by providing evidence where possible.

The CCTV was reconfigured for a number of months around April/May 2013 to monitor the location in question. No fines were issued at the time using this method. The camera was subsequently reverted back to monitoring the park. By way of follow up, a similar exercise will be undertaken and the camera will once again be reconfigured to monitor the location.