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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, September 23, 2024

QUESTION NO.

QUESTION: Councillor M. Duff

"Could the Manager make a report to this Area Committee regarding the numbers of potholes in Tallaght reported by members of this Committee and what actions he has taken to carry out remedial works?"

REPLY:

In early 2024 we received a number of complaints regarding potholes across the county. As a response to this we allocated additional resources to our patching programme and requested elected members to forward all locations of concern to us. We received 82 locations across the county and actioned 64 of these locations within 6 weeks. To date we have actioned 89% of the locations. The remaining locations are either scheduled for patching or will be incorporated into a repair scheme to be completed before the year’s end.

It is estimated that on average three potholes were present at each of the 82 locations that had been referred to us so to date we have repaired over 200 potholes.

The number of potholes repaired is not data we gather so in addition to the list of locations compiled by council members our depot staff have been repairing multiple other locations around the county that will not be recorded in these numbers.

As always we welcome being informed of additional locations of concern that you may have