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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 25, 2019

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor M. Duff

"To ask the Chief Executive to advise this Area Committee what actions, if any, is being taken to identify tenants who are not presenting bins for collection and who are storing large amounts of rubbish in their back gardens, to the detriment of Public Health in their Communities?"

REPLY:

SDCC receives daily complaints regarding hoarding and burning of waste in back gardens at both private and public housing. In 2018 approximately 350 cases were investigated, some with poor outcomes, others with significant compliance.

In general and going forward both the Environment and Housing Departments will continue to work closely together where complaints are made regarding Council tenanted properties. The simplest and immediate action will be to work within the confines of existing Tenancy Agreements and the recently made Bye-Laws. Tenancy warnings have been issued in cases where no service provider has been established at the property and waste is accumulating, and individual letters have also issued from Environment's Enforcement & Licensing Section in cases where it is believed that no service provider is engaged.

Similarly, in general, the Council will work with the service providers in our endeavours to establish details of non-users, as well as details for each bin provided by service providers to customers but where there are no lifts.