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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 11, 2017

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor R. McMahon

"To ask the Chief Executive if any litter fines were issued in the last 2 years for litter offences at the Cherryfield Traveller Halting Site and what action the Council is taking to prevent the constant litter problem along the Dodder at the Cherryfield Traveller Halting Site?"

REPLY:

"There were no litter fines issued in respect of litter offences at the Cherryfield Traveller Halting Site in the last 2 years. 

Due to lack of evidence, unwillingness of complainants to provide witness statements, or difficulty in identifying the legal entity involved, enforcement action cannot be taken. 

Increasingly it is found that no personal information relating to the polluter is contained within dumped material with personal information having been removed or shredded. 

The Council is fully committed to tackling individuals or groups who are engaged in illegal dumping.

All reports of litter and illegal dumping are recorded on the Environmental Complaints System, where they are tracked from original complaint, through investigation to enforcement and all incidents of illegal dumping received are searched for evidence and appropriate enforcement action taken, where possible. 

The Traveller Accomodation Unit recently advertised for tenders for clean up of the surrounds of three Traveller Halting Sites, one of which is Cherryfield. The closing date for receipt of tenders was the 16th March 2017. 

A contractor has been appointed and work will commence shortly on the sites (cascading order), with Cherryfield site scheduled second."