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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 10, 2018

QUESTION NO. 16

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Executive for a report into the cost of clean up for Halloween 2018 to SDCC? Also ask for a report into Bulbs not Bonfires ?  

REPLY:

A total of 280 Halloween bonfire sites were recorded in the County for 2018. 

The Council collected and removed bonfire materials as a priority task through the month of October and for part of September also. 

Over the weekend and days immediately prior to Halloween, from Saturday October 27th to Wednesday October 31st, a total of 144.4 tonnes of bonfire materials was collected by this Council.  In the days immediately after Halloween, from November 1st to 3rd, a total of 51.7 tonnes of waste was removed from bonfire sites. 

Complete information on waste tonnages is not available as yet however the data that is available indicates that an estimated 500 tonnes of waste has been removed including prior to and post Halloween, all at an estimated cost of €120,000. 

The clean up of sites has now been completed and reinstatement where required will take place in the spring of 2019.

Bulbs not Bonfires is a Halloween reward through the Council’s Social Credits Scheme. This scheme rewards community groups for undertaking local sustainable / pro environmental / anti bonfire projects. The Bulbs not Bonfires scheme aims to provide communities with flowers in the Spring instead of a scarred open space throughout the year. This year 180 bags of bulbs were supplied as part of the initiative which was promoted through www.sdcc.ie, social media and email (SCS members, Councillors , PPN, Tidy Towns)