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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

QUESTION NO.5

QUESTION: Councillor L.Guéret

To ask the Chief Executive if he has plans to make provision for additional funding in the upcoming budget for the maintenance and cleaning of lanes in the Rathfarnham- Templeogue and Firhouse-Bohernabreena Local Electoral Areas.

REPLY:

The preparation of budget 2024 has commenced however it is not possible to make any comment at this point in time with regard to what funding, or additional funding, will be provided for any work programme in the coming year. 

A specific fund was provided in both the 2022 and 2023 budgets for the recruitment of temporary/seasonal staff to carry out a laneway cleaning programme in the Dublin 12 area.  Regrettably the efforts made to recruit these seasonal staff were unsuccessful and the laneway cleaning programme has only carried out in part over that time period and this work has been done by existing staff resources.

No specific provision has been proposed for inclusion in budget 2024 for this work programme.  This programme of work will once again be carried out from within existing staff resources with staff numbers increasing through the filling of vacant posts and an expected increase in staff numbers available.