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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/FONTHILL AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor Shane Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive for a detailed update on progress of the Accelerated Maintenance Programme, with regard to when works will be completed and the nature of these works.

REPLY:

There has been significant impact on the 2020 plans for the Accelerated Maintenance Programme due to the Covid-19 restrictions and all programmes are being rescheduled to fit a revised works schedule taking account of social distancing and other health and safety measures. A report on the planned maintenance programme for the remainder of 2020 was presented to at the recent Housing Strategic Policy Committee on the 10th September 2020 with details of works and costings (copy attached to reply).Notwithstanding this, a range of bespoke responses and working arrangements have resulted in the maintenance of certain critical and essential services including electrical, heating, and plumbing services to tenants.

While we are conscious that planned maintenance services have had to be delayed or postponed in 2020, we will look to pick up on those services in line with the Government’s Resilience and Recovery 2020-2021: Plan for Living with COVID-19.

Dedicated staff resources have now been put in place to ensure effective project management which will be supported by a tenant communications plan with the objective of delivering all of the programmes by the end of 2021.