COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 18, 2018

QUESTION NO. 3

QUESTION: Councillor D. O'Brien

"To ask the Chief Executive for a report on the total amount of illegal dumping there has been this year in the Lucan LEA and the cost to this Council of cleaning up the areas? This report will also include the total number of case’s reported to the Council in 2018."

REPLY:

All incidents of illegal dumping reported or detected in any area is investigated by the Council's Litter Warden Service and all dumped material is searched for evidence.  Where evidence is found, the appropriate enforcment action is taken under the Litter Pollution Act 1997, as amended. Increasingly, it is found that no personal information relating to polluters is contained within the dumped material, with personal information having been removed or shredded.

Whilst it is not possible to provide the number of complaints by electoral area, to date in 2018  (up to 30th November), the total number of complaints received is three thousand and five hundred and nine (3509) which resulted in five hundred and seventy four (574) Fixed Penalty Notices (FPN) issued and one hundred and fifty six (156) Notices issued.

The total clean up cost of illegal dumping to date (up to 30th November) is €1,315,647.88