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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 15, 2018

QUESTION NO.17

QUESTION: Councillor M. Ward

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the overall  costs of cleansing of illegal dumping for years 2015/2016 and 2017 and per LEA?

REPLY:

The information on cleansing costs cannot be provided by electoral area as is requested here.  The service is provided on a Countywide basis operating from all 7 public realm maintenance depots.  The staff assigned to the work move from site to site cleaning and removing waste, with waste from all sites bulked together.  It is not possible to separate out details to identify the cost of clean up of any individual site.  The overall costs associated with the clean up of illegal dumping in the County for the years 2015, 2016 & 2017 are shown below.  It should be noted that the 2017 figure is not an end of year figure and will rise when all costs are accounted for early in 2018.