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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

MOTION NO. 23

MOTION: Councillor D. O'Brien

"In 2015 the council announced that as part of the LED light upgrade program that Lucan Heights, Roselawn & Ballydowd would have their lights updated. This work has not been done. When does the Council plan to do this work." 

REPORT: Our response to the requests for upgrades in these three locations by Cllr O'Brien in August 2015 was as follows:

'The LED upgrade programme relating to this area is currently at tendering stage. It is envisaged that the upgrade programme will commence in Quarter 4 2015. The programme will initially install over 600 units spread across all electoral areas. At present, the precise roll out sequence has not been determined. This will be finalised as part of programming negotiations with all contracted stakeholders once the contract has been awarded.'

The public light fittings in all three areas referred to above reside on the ESB Network. Any public light upgrades carried out on these fittings by a third party contractor (i.e. not our own PL maintenance contractor) require the permission of ESB Networks.

The contract referred to above was tendered in July 2015 to procure a suitable electrical contractor to carry out this specialist work. During the tendering period, ESB Networks suspended any permissions for the use of third party contractors in cases such as this.

Because of this, the tender has not yet been awarded and we have since been in discussion with ESB Networks to resolve the situation. These discussions are currently reaching a conclusion which will allow us to finally award the contract and in doing so, carry out the type of works referred to above. 

Please note that no undertaking was given to upgrade any of the three locations referred to above, only that they would be considered when scheduling the works with the third party contractor."