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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF CLONDALKIN, NEWCASTLE, RATHCOOLE, SAGGART AND BRITTAS AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

QUESTION NO. 8

QUESTION: Councillor Eoin Ó Broin

To ask the Chief Executive if damage done to public parks by scrambler bikes and quad bikes constitutes criminal damage, where the grass is torn up by the tyres of said bikes and the earth underneath exposed?

REPLY:

In accordance with the Parks & Open Space bye laws 2011, Section 5.1 (b) General Regulations in Relation to Persons Using a Park;

 “No person shall damage, destroy or remove any tree, shrub or plant growing in a Park or pluck, cut or remove any leaf, flower, blossom, fruit, or other part of any tree, shrub or plant.” 

While grass that is damaged by scramblers is a breach of the park bye law, the matter of criminal damage would need to be determined by An Garda Siochána.