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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 14, 2020

QUESTION NO. 10

QUESTION: Councillor M. Duff

Could the Chief Executive to make a report regarding the situation where tenants of Approved Housing Bodies are complaining that they are being ignored when they inform the AHB about serious Anti Social behaviour in their apartment complex and believe that they have no recourse for a response to the complaints. Is there a mechanism available to these tenants to take their complaints directly to SDCC Anti Social officers if they continue to be ignored by the AHB?

REPLY:

All reports in relation to anti-social behaviour affecting tenants of an Approved Housing Body (AHB) should be reported in the first instance to the Housing Officer of the relevant AHB.  There are well established and good working relationships between the Council's estate management/anti-social behaviour teams and their counterparts in AHBs strongly supported by ongoing liaison with local Gardai in relation to anti-social behaviour affecting tenants. 

No details or specific evidence has been provided to the Council regarding AHB Housing Officers not fulfilling their duties towards their tenants or in any way ignoring their tenants' complaints - any such details can be provided to our estate management team and will be raised at a high-level with the AHB concerned where necessary.