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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 09, 2015

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the work undertaken by the Council with regard to road gritting, storm damage work and other weather-related activity so far during the winter period, and to state how this compares to previous years?

REPLY:

SDCC have gritted on 60 occasions from mid Oct 2014 to date. This compares with 45 occasions in the previous season  (Mid Oct 2013 to end of Jan 2014) and 50 occasions in the season before that (Mid Oct 2012 to end of Jan 2013)
There has been a slight increase in the numbers of grittings as shown above but the temperatures have not decreased from previous years.

There has been ni increase in storm damage.