COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 22, 2022

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor Derren Ó Brádaigh

To ask the manager to provide report in tabular form, detailing the number of abandoned vehicles reported, notices provided to registered owners and action taken to remove said vehicles in the past 12 months. Report to include the estimated overall cost to the Council, monies recovered through prosecution and the number of vehicles that have been correctly disposed of at authorised treatment facilities during the same period.

REPLY:

The information requested for the past 12 months is set out in the table below:

Description	Number/Comment
Number of Vehicles reported to SDCC as abandoned	526
Actions taken to remove said vehicles, including notices to registered owners	257 “7 day” letters 102 removal notices   30 final notices
Estimated overall cost to the Council	€5,000.00 approx. (contractor)
Monies recovered through prosecution	N/A no prosecutions
No of vehicles removed by SDCC and correctly disposed of at authorised treatment facilities	30

Each report received was investigated by the Council's Litter Warden Service. As a result of these investigations, the Council removed a total of 30 cars that were deemed to have been abandoned.

The outcome of the other reports is as follows:

• 254 cars were either moved after the owner was contacted by the Council or were not at the reported location when investigated
• 159 cars were in use or being sold/put back on the road by their owner
• 41 cases were a Garda matter
• 31 cases related to parking issues

The remaining cases were still under investigation at the end of the year.

There were no prosecutions taken through the courts by the Council in respect of an abandoned vehicle.