COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

QUESTION NO.14

QUESTION: Councillor N. Fennell

To ask the Manger for a report in tabular form on the process of getting Garda clearance for people to become social housing tenants, including in tabular form, the amount of Garda Clearance request applied for per month in the last year, the average waiting time for SDCC to receive clearance, in the Palmerstown, Fonthill and Lucan LEAs and to give a statement on the matter

REPLY:

To date in 2024, the Council has received 1338 Garda reports with an average processing time of 12  weeks.  There are currently three hundred and fifty nine ‘Section 15’ requests outstanding, the majority of which are requested from Tallaght, Clondalkin and Lucan/Ronanstown Garda Stations. The Council has written to the Superintendents for these districts highlighting the impact on our housing allocation timeframes and our willingness to work with An Garda Síochána to review and streamline the process to improve efficiencies.

It is not possible to provide a breakdown of figures per LEA, as some Garda districts cross over different LEA’s and is also dependant on where the applicant currently resides and not where they are applying to live.

See table below for the number of Garda reports received per month for the County up to 8th October 2024.

Jan	Feb	March	April	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct 8th
20	23	17	93	87	293	96	356	337	16