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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 08, 2019

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

To ask the Chief Executive how much was spent on cleaning laneways in 2018 and 2019 to date, and to list the expenditure in tabular form by ward.

REPLY:

The cleaning of laneways in the County is not provided for separately in the annual budget and costs to provide this service cannot be separated from the overall budget for a variety of cleansing services which are provided by the Public Realm Section. A total of €2.86m has been provided in the 2019 budget for cleaning of housing estates including the cleaning of laneways, general litter picking in all locations, the removal of illegally dumped materials and the provision of waste collection services to tidy towns and residents association groups.  It is not possible to separate out the cost to clean laneways from this and by electoral ward. 

The laneway cleaning service provided by the Public Realm is for the most part a response to requests from litter wardens to remove illegally dumped materials. Individual requests are received from time to time from residents and public representatives to have certain laneways cleaned and these are responded to as the need arises.  In addition to this a scheduled laneway cleaning service is in place in both the Dublin 12 area and in the Palmerstown area, in response to specific and significant issues which have arisen at those locations over the years where dumping on these laneways has been widespread due to the ease of access to these laneways for larger vehicles.

The Council's Housing Dept also provide a laneway cleaning service, in addition to that provided by the Public Realm Section.