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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 23, 2015

QUESTION NO. 2

QUESTION: Councillor M. Devine

"To ask the Chief Executive Officer if a Graffiti cleansing unit is in operation within the county.

Can the Graffiti be removed from the boundary wall at Glenview- facing entrance to Tymon?"

REPLY:

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.  Efforts are being made to extend this MoU to other utility providers.

The above location will be inspected by the Litter Warden and appropriate action taken to have this graffiti removed.