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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 08, 2018

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive if he would confirm the plans in place to deal with bad weather events given the list of expected storms recently revealed by Met Eireann and in responding will he also report on actions taken on the 18th of September last when Storm Ali arrived in South Dublin and will he make a statement.

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council Severe Weather Assessment Team (SWAT) meets in advance of all storms on foot of any Met Eireann Weather Warnings received. The SWAT is made up of senior staff from across the organisation. The purpose of the meeting is to assess the readiness of the council to deal with the upcoming storm and put in place preventative actions as required.

The SWAT team met on Monday morning 18th September at 9:15am to assess Storm Ali and the impact the storm was having on the county. There were a number of trees down, and staff were dealing with these. The N81 was affected by a tree down in the Boherboy area and this was attended early on that morning. The storm was monitored during the day but the need for another meeting was deemed not to be required at the time.