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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE/FIRHOUSE/BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

MOTION NO. 5

MOTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

To ask the Manager to organise a clearing and cleansing of the laneway at the rear of St. James's Road, Greenhills as it has been the subject of illegal dumping and associated anti social behaviour

REPORT:

The materials identified in this photograph have been removed.

The Litter Warden patrols the laneways to the rear of St James' Road regularly and all incidents of illegal dumping are searched for evidence of polluter details. Appropriate enforcement action is taken where the information of the polluter is identified. The matter is then referred to the Public Realm for removal of dumped material. Increasingly, it is found that no personal information relating to polluters is contained within the dumped material, with personal information having been removed or shredded.

Additionally these lanes are patrolled by Public Realm Operations crews, who remove material when detected or when reported through the Members Rep or Customer Care systems.

As always, the Council is grateful for assistance and support from local residents or others in their investigations of such incidents as they arise. In the absence of substantive evidence / witness statements and the presence of such witnesses in court it is not possible for us to bring successful prosecutions. Residents may also report illegal dumping to the Environmental Protection Agency's anti-dumping hotline on 1850 365121.