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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 08, 2014

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor P. Foley

To ask the Chief Executive, at an recent area committee meeting a figure was supplied for the removal of reported graffiti which was less than 40%. What steps are being taken to improve this percentage?

REPLY:

The information submitted to the November Rathfarnham/ Templeogue- Terenure Area Committee meeting indicated that of the 98 locations reported to Public Realm for removal, the graffiti in 86 of these locations had been removed during October/ November. 

The 40% removal rate as mentioned in above is based on old information and is not representative of the current rate of graffiti removal.

A programme of works is in place to clean graffiti on public property using the Council's staff resources as well as the resources of the Probation Service's community service programme which are available to the Council for this type of work.

Owners of private property which has been affected by graffiti are responsible and should remove the graffiti, as required by provisions of the Litter Pollution Act 1997.

The Council has in place a Memorandum of Understanding with the ESB regarding graffiti on ESB utilities, under the terms of the MoU the ESB will remove graffiti from their utilities within a specified time frame when requested by the Council to do so.