COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

QUESTION NO. 1

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

"The Kiltipper Ramblers and the Glenasmole Pure group are each working on a mile of the Dublin mountains to keep it as beautiful as nature intended.  A recent tour of the area showed dumped tyres, scorched earth from wire burning and a couple of deer carcasses partially wrapped in plastic along with other dumping.  Please outline what dedicated supports are available to the communities in their endeavours?"

REPLY:

The Council's Public Realm Section carries out regular clean up work on those areas of the Dublin Mountains where regular illegal dumping takes place.  The cleansing work arranged by this Council is usually on foot of requests from the litter wardens following their investigations in the area.  The PURE initiative (Protecting Uplands and Rural Environments) provides a similar clean up service to that provided by the local authority.  PURE operates independently of the local authorities however it is funded in part by South Dublin County Council as well as Dublin City Council, Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Wicklow County Council and the DECLG.   PURE will also act on foot of requests received for clean up in affected areas, they do not however have an enforcement role. 

This Council is happy to provide assistance to the Groups mentioned in their efforts under the PURE Mile initiative, and this can involve the scheduling of clean up works as required or the targeting of monitoring and enforcement on illegal, unauthorised waste activities in the area.  It should be noted that the Council has already provided assistance to the Glenasmole Group in 2015 by way of road sweeping in their area.