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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTON/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Friday, December 18, 2020

QUESTION NO. 16

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

While its acknowledge that we have a current tree programme in place and we receive regular updates, could the Chief Executive provide a report on the tress that have been categorise as "urgent" and or "dangerous" by individuals and then separately by council officials for the Lucan area.

REPLY:

 South Dublin County Council operates a 3-year rolling programme of tree maintenance. In line with the Council's Tree Management Policy "Living with Trees", the focus of the Tree Maintenance Programme is on entire roads or whole estates. In addition to the planned whole estate and road programme, reactive and emergency works are carried out on individual trees as necessary to minimise risks to the public. Emergency and reactive tree works will normally take priority over the planned programme of tree maintenance works. Contractors have been engaged to work on areas where there are dangerous trees, utility services and priority trees in one-off locations which need to be attended to but are not on the approved tree programme. Tree maintenance works will be prioritised at individual locations over the coming months.

All tree queries submitted through the members representation system and identified as dangerous and urgent are inspected and recorded in the Council's Tree Management System. If tree maintenance is required, this is scheduled.