COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

South Dublin County Council Crest

MEETING OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN MEETING

Thursday, June 17, 2021

MOTION NO.

MOTION: Councillor William Joseph Carey, Councillor Derren Ó Brádaigh

Chapter 7 - SUSTAINABLE MOVEMENT - Policy 1 - Transport & Movement (Page 182) Insert New Objective: To engage with the National Transport Authority and Irish Rail directly to facilitate and promote local public consultations in determining local service level needs, along existing and planned future network, with emphasis on areas of forecast population and housing growth as part of and during the phasing stages of the Clonburris and Adamstown SDZ's. Particular attention to DART, LUAS and Bus extension programmes, in addressing rail underutilisation and meeting forecast target increases for improved rail usage and carbon reduction in improving service levels to meet strategic objectives.

REPORT:

The motion seeks to insert a new objective as follows: ‘To engage with the National Transport Authority and Irish Rail directly to facilitate and promote local public consultations in determining local service level needs, along existing and planned future network, with emphasis on areas of forecast population and housing growth as part of and during the phasing stages of the Clonburris and Adamstown SDZ's. Particular attention to DART, LUAS and Bus extension programmes, in addressing rail underutilisation and meeting forecast target increases for improved rail usage and carbon reduction in improving service levels to meet strategic objectives’.

The Council regularly engages with all transport agencies and service providers including the NTA, TII and Irish Rail, particularly in relation to the future transport needs of the County’s strategic development areas including the Adamstown and Clonburris SDZ areas, Naas Road and Tallaght.

In particular, the Council will continue to engage with the NTA in the context of the review of the GDA Transport Strategy which is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

With respect to such engagement, the CE Draft Plan includes the following objective

SM1 Objective 7: ‘To engage with relevant agencies including the National Transport Authority (NTA) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in relation to strategic and local transportation issues including delivery of transport projects’.

 

It is considered that the wording ‘and to encourage consultation with local communities’ should be added in order to reflect the motion. The revised objective would read as follows:

SM1 Objective 7: ‘To engage with relevant agencies including the National Transport Authority (NTA) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in relation to strategic and local transportation issues including delivery of transport projects and to encourage consultation with local communities’.

It is considered that the above objective as amended reflects the intent of the motion.

Recommendation

It is recommended that the motion be adopted with amendments to revise SM1 Objective 7 to read as follows:

‘To engage with relevant agencies including the National Transport Authority (NTA) and Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) in relation to strategic and local transportation issues including delivery of transport projects and to encourage consultation with local communities.’