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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan

"To ask the Chief Executive how many tree pruning and tree removal requests have SDCC received from the RTT area within the past six months?"

REPLY:

The Council’s Customer Contact System is usually the first point of contact for enquiries and complaints from the public, including those relating to trees. All enquiries are logged into the system and all tree-related requests are assigned into one of 3 categories: tree pruning, tree removal and tree planting. The system does not currently have the capacity to assign enquiries to electoral area or to interrogate data based on electoral area.  However, a manual interrogation of data in the system has revealed approximately 265 no. requests for tree pruning and 270 no. requests for tree removal received from the Rathfarnham/Templeogue/Terenure area for the six-month period December 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015.  It is important to note that while the above figures indicate the nos. of tree-related enquiries received by the Council, when these queries are subsequently inspected by Council staff, not all of the requests require follow-up tree maintenance.