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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor S. O'Hara

"To ask the Chief Executive for more litter patrols on L6023 Road, Loughtown Lower, Newcastle,  due to the increase in illegal dumping."

REPLY:

The Litter Warden patrols this location at least twice each week 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. 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.

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.