COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 26, 2016

QUESTION NO.18

QUESTION: Councillor E. O'Brien

To ask the CEO to confirm the number of residents associations in the county who

a) applied for grants from SDCC for shrubs and trees

b) were awarded such grants

c) the total amount of the grants awarded in monetary terms in the past 12 months

REPLY:

There are no specific grants for shrubs or trees, requests for tree and shrub planting are managed through the Council's Tree Planting Programme.

Anti-Litter Anti Graffiti grants are specifically awarded for Anti Litter & Anti Graffiti awareness projects. Srubbery and trees available under this grant are strictly for the purpose of reducing or preventing litter or graffiti.  Anti graffiti creeper plants are provided, and where a group expresses interest to ‘adopt a patch’ in their local area (they maintain and enhance an area prone to repeatitive littering) they are provided with native trees/shrubs or pollinator plants or anti graffiti creeper plants.

LA21 grant focuses on sustainability and biodiversity projects. Community groups and residents associations can apply for shrubs, trees and flowers under this grant. Only native shrubs/trees and only pollinator flowers/plants are funded so groups can enhance biodiversity and sustainability in their local area.

In the past 12 months:

3 Residents Associations & 5 community groups applied for grants

2 Residents Associations & 3 community groups were awarded funding

Overall €600.22 was awarded to Residents Associations and €2,400.00 was awarded to community groups.

The projects that were not awarded funding did not met the criteria as set out in the application form for both grants. 

 *In 2016 native seeds and creeper plants were introduced to the social credit scheme, however to date there has been no applications.