COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, January 11, 2016
QUESTION NO.5
QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor
To ask the Chief Executive if he is satisfied that the Council continues to be in a position to respond to bad weather events and if he will report on the Council's efforts thus far this Winter.
REPLY:
The Council has responded to flooding events and has had emergency crews on call during the recent inclement weather.
The Winter Gritting season has already commenced and SDCC gritters have been out on two occasions. Roads Dept. have been allocated 3710 tonnes of salt for the season and this will suffice.
Winter Ready information is available on the Councils website and provides useful guidance for members of the public in dealing with adverse weather conditions.
Crews from Roads, Water and Drainage, Housing and the Public Realm are on call 24/7 to deal with flooding, fallen trees, frozen/burst pipes and other weather related incidents.
In the event of adverse weather the public and business community will be kept advised of the ongoing situation using the Council’s Website, Customer Care Team, Twitter, Facebook, E-Mail, SMS text and regular press releases. Throughout the adverse weather period the Council will give daily and sometimes hourly updates to the National Task Force that was set up to co-ordinate responses nationally. These meetings were attended by the Ministers and officials for Transport, Defence and Environment, Met Eireann, Dublin City Engineer (on behalf of the Dublin LA’s), the NRA, the HSE, the HSA, Bus Eireann, Dublin Bus, LUAS, Irish Rail and the CCMA.