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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 13, 2017

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the usage to date by this Council of electronically-controlled, time-specific locking mechanisms on pedestrian gates to public parks?

REPLY:

In general the pedestrian accesses to parks within the County remain open at all times.  There are some exceptions to this, including a small number of locations where pedestrian accesses are electronically controlled by time switch.  Accesses to Rathfarnham Castle Park are controlled in such a manner, as is one pedestrian access to Glenaulin Park.  These measures have been necessary to deal with specific problems at these locations and are executed on a case by case basis.