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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 13, 2024

QUESTION NO.23

QUESTION: Councillor V. Mulhall

To ask the Chief Executive for an update on tree maintenance and planting for the county.

REPLY:

The current three year tree maintenance programme covering the period 2023 to '25 is nearing the half way point.  The programme was presented to the meetings of the area committees at the end of 2022.  The county wide programme contains a total of 176 locations including roads and whole estates where tree maintenance works are proposed, in addition to this the tree management section responds to once-off requests for maintenance work to be carried out on trees where they are examined and works are deemed necessary and where the location had not been included on the 3 year programme.  During the period from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 March 2024 a total of 11,629 tree inspections have taken place, a total of 6,417 trees have been pruned, 948 trees have been removed, 313 stumps have been removed and 3,054 trees have been planted. Progress on the programme of works is considered to be on track and will achieve completion of approximately 65 to 70% of the programme by end of year at which time we will be two thirds of the way through the programme period.