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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, April 22, 2024

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor B. Pereppadan

"To ask the chief executive for an update on the lack of spare parts for LED street lights across the country. Some areas here in Tallaght have non-functioning street lights for over 3-4 months due to shortages in parts?"

REPLY:

There are currently approximately 1,000 outages across the County. These outages are all of the older orange type lamp, which is no longer available to procure. We have been working to repair these by upgrading them to LED. However, due to the technical challenges with these older lights, ESBN must attend site before these repairs, or indeed any upgrades to LED, can be carried out.

We have been engaging with them to progress our LED upgrade programme on these older lights since early 2023. ESBN are unable to commit the resources required to make any substantial progress with this in any meaningful or timely manner. If the upgrades were progressing quickly, most of these repairs would be unnecessary.

Given the outcome of this in that we now have 1,000 lights out across the County, we have been working hard to try and agree an alternative approach with ESBN.  However as yet this has not been possible. We will continue to keep Councillors informed on this as it progress and we appreciate that this is very undesirable.