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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 08, 2024

QUESTION NO.7

QUESTION: Councillor C. Brady

To ask the Chief Executive about the efforts being taken by the Council, including through engagement with telecom providers, to remove telephone kiosks and other eyesores that have been negatively impacting the scores of Tidy Towns groups across the county in the National Tidy Towns Competition?

REPLY:

Eir is currently in the process, in collaboration with communities and local authorities, to remove the last of the payphone boxes across the country.  It is believed that nationally, several payphones have already been removed while others have been transformed into local digital kiosks.

Such collaboration has taken place to date with SDCC in relation to the removal of 4 kiosks in Lucan, and the Council will continue to work with Eir in any other removal programme, if necessary.

Similarly, the Council departments will continue to liaise with local communities in their endeavours, and where it is believed that units within the Council owned public realm are negatively impacting efforts.