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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE/FIRHOUSE/BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor Alan Edge

To ask the Manager to please report on the waste situation in Cherryfield adjacent to the halting site, and specifically whether there are outstanding issues regarding provision of waste services at the site and to what extent there has been any constructive engagement with residents to try to resolve the issues?

REPLY:

It is the Council's policy to ensure that all halting sites are managed and maintained to a high standard. In the last 2 years, the Traveller Accommodation Unit have arranged 4 clean-ups of the external permitter of the site in Cherryfield at a cost of €17,500. In addtion skips have been provided to the residents to dispose of domestic waste. The Council also provides a daily caretaking service at this location.

Staff from theTraveller Accommodation Unit together with the Local Traveller Development Group engage regularly with residents regarding waste management issues in this area with a view to piloting a waste collection service to all residents in conjunction with a contracted waste provider.