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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, January 14, 2019
QUESTION NO. 11
QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor
To ask the Chief Exectuive to confirm plans to deal with the menace of Litter and Graffiti through 2019; will he appreciate the concerns of communities in respect of this matter and will he make a statement.
REPLY:
Litter / Graffiti is managed in accordance with the provisions of the Litter Pollution Act 1997 as amended, and through the Council's supporting Annual Action Plan developed as part of the Litter Management Plan (LMP) 2014-2019.
A review of the Litter Management Plan 2015-2019 will commence in Q1 2019 and a new statutory Litter Management Plan is expected to be in place by 31st December 2019.
There is a three strand approach to managing these issues under the existing plan as follows:
- Enforcement & Licensing
- Management and maintenance of the public realm
- Communication, education and awareness
Initiatives undertaken in 2018 and progressing into 2019 include but are not limited to the following:
- Planned / Scheduled public realm works including scheduled and reactive clean-ups
- Village cleansing
- Road sweeping
- Litter Bin provision and replacement
- Anti-Dumping Grant applications to DCCAE via WERLA, if repeated into 2019
- Enhanced education and awareness programmes
- Dog Foul campaigns - cinema and radio advertisements / dog foul bags / green dog walker promo
- Social Credits Scheme - Landscaping projects / community clean-ups supports / Small Paint Schemes
- Dublin Street Canvas pilot
- Graffiti removal
- Litter Warden Patrols - Fixed Penalty Notices
- Use of CCTV/ emerging technologies
All these measures are aimed at improving the aesthetic appearance of our county in the interest of improving quality of life and our economic development potential.
Significant improvements have been achieved in this area which have been reflected in 2018 IBAL and Tidy Towns reports, and once again the Council is very appreciative of the community and voluntary efforts that are made alongside the Council’s work to bring about these positive changes.