COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

MOTION NO. 14

MOTION: Councillor Eoin Ó Broin

"That this Area Committee agrees to write to all primary, secondary and third level institutions in the LEA encouraging them to consider SDCC biodiversity policy when deciding their respective grass cutting regimes between now and the reopening of these institutions. Given that these institutions are closed until then, an opportunity has arisen to experiment with different approaches to grass cutting that give consideration to biodiversity."

REPORT:

We are not currently in a position to post out physical letters to every school and we do not know if all schools are monitoring their post. The most efficient way to contact schools would be by email. We have email addresses for all the registered Green Schools in the County – 138 of 147 schools.

The owners of those email addresses varies from the Green Schools Co-Ordinators to school secretaries. Some of them are school accounts while others are private email addresses and we don’t know for sure who is still checking their emails. So while we will arrange for an email to be sent, it will be difficult to gauge the uptake.

We will also raise awareness by way of Social Media posts, which Councillors and members of the public could assist with by forwarding and spreading the information.