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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

MOTION NO.14

MOTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan 

"That this Area Committee calls on the Chief Executive to report on the anti dog-walker signage that has recently appeared in all parks within the area."

REPORT:

The Council has not erected anti dog-walking signs in its’ Parks and Open Spaces.

However dog owners are responsible for the control of their dogs. Section 9 of the Control of Dogs Act 1986, as amended,  requires the owner or person in charge of a dog in a public place to keep the dog under effectual control. 

The Council’s 2011 Parks and Open Spaces Bye-Laws makes specific reference (Section 4) to the control of dogs when in public parks or open spaces

“4.1.1 No person:

a)Shall take into or allow to remain in a Park any dog unless it is under effective control on a leash other

than in areas designated (dog runs) or at times specified by the County Council.”

Signs to this effect have been erected in Council Parks.