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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 14, 2019

QUESTION NO.10

QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the Chief Executive to present an update on his plans to utilise the extra resources approved in the Budget in respect of the Tree Program; will he detail how this will deal with so called emergency attention to trees and will he make a statement. 

REPLY:

Additional provision of €300,000 has been made in the 2019 budget for tree management.  In applying this additional resource, the number of trees pruned/removed is targeted to increase by 1000 or 33% over the 2018 level (2012 trees). The trees listed for attention will be drawn from existing requests for works to be carried out in the first instance. The number of trees planted is targeted to increase by 300 to 1,300 over the planned level of 1000 trees planted in 2018.  There will also be focus on tree stump removals with a target of 2000 tree stump removals for 2019.