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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 09, 2016

QUESTION NO.5

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on further consultations held with An Garda Síochana in relation to proposals to amend the Parks and Open Spaces Bye-Laws 2011 to explicitly make provision for the detention, return and/or disposal of scrambler bikes, quads and other vehicles which have been removed from parks and opens spaces by Gardaí?

REPLY:

As previously advised it would appear from the Bye-Laws that the Gardaí are given authority to remove vehicles, and the legal advice to the Chief Executive is that the Council's Bye-Laws as drafted are sufficient, and pending the outcome of consultations with the Gardaí, it is not necessarily proposed to amend the current Bye-Laws.

Details of the motion debated at the April Council Meeting has been referred to Senior Gardaí and a meeting is being arranged.

It is also envisaged that the issue will form part of discussion with the new Road Safety Working Group (which will include senior local Gardaí) and is in the process of being established.