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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, April 08, 2019

QUESTION NO. 14

QUESTION: Councillor R. McMahon

To ask the Chief Executive if there are plans to add a line to the monthly statistics report, which is presented at the monthly Council meeting, showing progress made, to date, on the public lights being switched over to the cost saving, efficient and climate friendly LED lighting option?

REPLY:

The Council is currently engaged in measures to address the long term causes of climate change, to improve energy efficiency, and to reduce Green House Gas emissions.

In this regard significant work has been undertaken in the area of the Public Lighting LED Programme.

The detail for February 2019 is now included in the February 2019 Statistical Report which accompanies the Chief Executive's Strategy Report for the April Council Meeting.

There were 154 LED upgrades carried out over January and February 2019, of these, 98 were carried out in February only.