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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 12, 2021

QUESTION NO. 24

QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons

To ask the Chief Excecutive why so few litter fines are issued with SDCC and to ask if there are plans to liase with other Councils to see how they deal with the ongoing litter issues?

REPLY:

All incidents of illegal dumping reported or detected in any area are investigated by the Council's Litter Warden Service and all dumped material is searched for evidence. Where evidence is found, the appropriate enforcement action is taken under the Litter Pollution Acts. 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.

247 Litter Fines have been issued up to the end of May 2021. In the same period, the Council's Litter Warden Service has dealt with 277 Members Reps, 645 Fix Your Street Reports and 1021 Environmental Complaints. In addition, at the end of May, there were 98 litter cases awaiting hearing in the District Court.