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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 08, 2016

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan

"To ask the Chief Executive how many reports of bonfires were received from the Rathfarnham/Templeogue-Terenure area?  How much did SDCC spend on cleaning these up?"

REPLY:

"Bonfires which took place around the County are currently being surveyed and mapped.  It is too early at this time to say how many there were across the County or in any specific electoral area.  It is also too early to calculate the cost associated with this year's bonfires as clean up has only just commenced and will continue for some weeks. 

The information which is available at present is as follows.  The Council received a total of 191 contacts relating to Halloween/stockpiling of bonfire materials in the two month period prior to October 31st and these are logged on the customer contact system.  The Council's out of hours call service logged a total of 85 bonfire related calls over the week from October 24th to 31st.  Council crews collected a total of 192 tonnes of waste in the two week period prior to Halloween, most of which was from bonfire stockpiles.  Council crews on duty on Saturday October 29th and on Monday October 31st collected a total of 41 tonnes of waste materials from bonfire stockpiles on those days."