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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

QUESTION NO.4

QUESTION: Councillor Y. Collins

That this Council furnishes an update in relation to badly needed repairs to public lighting in the Rathfarnham-Templeogue area and details of progress made with the ESB network in this regard, particularly as the evenings are now starting to draw in.

REPLY:

The Rathfarnham-Templeogue area falls under the remit of ESBN South Branch, and as previously outlined, due to their own internal resource issues, ESBN have proved very slow to respond to our requests to attend site in order to enable our LED programme to progress.

Unfortunately, it is reported that ESBN South Branch has the most serious resource issue of the three ESBN branches in South Dublin County but SDCC has been assured by ESBN at a recent meeting that an accreditation process for third party contractors to address the backlog of work is ongoing. This means that, according to ESBN, more resources should open up to support our county-wide LED programme in early 2025. 

However, until this happens, unfortunately, the same position as last winter will persist. SDCC will be unable to repair the most of the existing obsolete orange lights due to non-availability of lamps on the open market, and our only reliable source of lamps are those harvested under our planned upgrade programme referred to above.