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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

QUESTION NO.8

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan

"To ask the Chief Executive what the usual waiting time is for local community groups to have rubbish removed after a community clean up.  Ferncourt Residents Association recently had a clean up and it took four representations from this Member to have the bags removed?"

REPLY:

"When adequate notice is given it is usually possible to remove waste from a community clean up within a number of days.  For example, if a clean up is to take place on a Saturday and notice has been given early in the preceding week then it should be possible to remove the waste on Monday or Tuesday of the following week.  Waste arising from the clean up which took place in Ferncourt on May 14th should have been removed early in the following week as adequate notice was received, however it appears that the waste was not removed until the following week.  It should be noted that Ferncourt has now been added to the list of community clean ups occurring on a regular basis, and it is expected that there should be no further problems in relation to removal of waste from these clean ups as a result."