COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor E. O'Brien

"To ask the Chief Executive to report on the number of Green Dog Walkers currently registered and operating in the Lucan/Palmerstown local area?"

REPLY:

Green Dog Walkers (GDW) is a friendly way to change attitudes about dog fouling. The philosophy of this campaign is to start changing public attitudes so that it becomes socially unacceptable not to clean up after your dog. It is a community based scheme where volunteers in the community can adopt and promote in their own area.  Members of the public can apply through Social Credits at www.socialcredits.ie

The Green Dog Walkers is currently being promoted in conjunction with the renewal of Dog Licences. Each dog owner receives a responsible dog owner leaflet, two sample dog fouling bags and an application form to sign up to the Green Dog Walkers scheme. The initaive is also promoted at Environmental Awareness initatives as appropriate. In addition we are currently running a Green Dog Walker competition encouraging dog owners to sign up. This is being advertised through social media, email and PPN.

Currently there are 724 dog owners registered under the scheme with 196 of them from the Lucan/Palmerstown area.