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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, February 22, 2021

QUESTION NO.5

QUESTION: Councillor T. Costello

"To ask the Chief Executive what is the current grass cutting schedule for Tallaght broken down by estates"

REPLY:

The grass cutting schedule for the County including the Tallaght area aims to achieve weekly cutting of playing pitches and fortnightly cutting of all other areas including roadside margins, open spaces and parks.  What this means specifically for housing estates is that they are grouped together on a geographical basis and are cut on alternating weeks.  The frequencies can vary from time to time, for example it takes a number of weeks for the operation to get up to full speed at the start of the season.  If a period of warm and dry weather occurs the need to cut at these frequencies might reduce and this reduction in frequency also occurs at the end of the season.  Playing pitches have not been in use during the period of Covid restrictions and this has removed the need to cut playing pitches on a fortnightly frequency.  Following the closure of Sean Walsh Park depot in 2020 a review of grass cutting in the Tallaght area is being carried out and the necessary changes to the operation to reflect this change will be incorporated when the annual grass cutting programme starts in late March.