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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 09, 2019

QUESTION NO. 31

QUESTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive to outline whether or not the County has drawn down funds from the Community CCTV schemes, and if not, to outline the reasons why. 

REPLY:

The Council is not currently in receipt of an allocation of funding under the current scheme for Community CCTV.  Limited funding (60% of €40,000 allowable expenditure) is available to install and maintain new CCTV security systems under the Department of Justice Community Based CCTV Scheme . No applications have been made under this scheme by the Council.  

Any proposal to extend the CCTV network in the County requires the approval of the Council’s Joint Policing Committee (JPC). A recent report considered by the JPC on this issue noted the complexities of installing community CCTV systems as well as the substantial costs involved in installation, maintenance and monitoring.  It is the Council's current position that any extension of the Community Based CCTV scheme would be cost prohibitve without an additional source of funding being identified.

There is already an extensive network of Community CCTV cameras in the County with 30 CCTV cameras that received grant funding when installed and which is supported by an annual revenue budget allocation of €95,000 for maintenance and running costs.  Necessary upgrade works to this network are also currently being planned at significant additional cost.