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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 12, 2016

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the current time taken to repair non-working public lighting and efforts to reduce delays?

REPLY:

• The current time taken to repair non-emergency PL outages is 14 working days, which is the standard cycle and is part of our maintenance contract.   If we receive notification of an outage either by phone call or CCS, it is immediately added to the current list for repair and repaired within that cycle.

• The backlog we experienced in early November has been addressed and was largely due to the shortening of daylight hours over the autumn period, resulting in a large number of outage reports. In addition, deterioration in weather conditions also causes more PL to fail. This is a seasonal occurrence.