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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 13, 2022

QUESTION NO. 13

QUESTION: Councillor Lyn Hagin Meade

To ask the Chief Executive, in light of the publication of the EPA radon map, what the exposure to radon is in SDCC, in relation to County Council owned properties and what strategies will be used to address this.

REPLY:

South Dublin County Council is in the area of lowest risk from radon as indicated in yellow on recent and previous EPA maps. High radon area in the county commences South of the built area in Killinarden and continues into County Wicklow.  In the limited areas indicated in red only (highest risk), workplaces and schools are recommended to check radon levels using the 3-month test.  

Since the early 1980s , council housing stock has used solid concrete floor slabs and  South Dublin County Council has been installing radon barriers in the ground-floor slabs of  their houses since before this requirement became statutory in 1998.  Linked to the lower-incidence of radon in the SDCC area , SDCC tenants have one the lowest radon risks in the country.