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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF TALLAGHT AREA COMMITTEE

Monday, March 24, 2025

MOTION NO. 3

MOTION: Councillor L. Dunne

"This Area Committee calls on the Manager to install CCTV monitoring signs on boarded-up Council owned properties in the Tallaght area immediately upon vacancy, to deter illegal dumping in their gardens?"

REPORT:

The Housing Maintenance and Refurbishment section undertake re-let works on vacant housing stock throughout the County to ensure stock is brought back into productive use for letting as soon as possible. Essential works carried out on all properties being re-let are delivered through a combination of our direct labour team and specialist contractors as necessary, who co-ordinate the essential craftworkers required to ensure the properties are delivered at the earliest opportunity whilst ensuring all site activities are carried out in accordance with health and safety and other requirements.

The cumulative average re-let times for properties to be re-let in 2023 was 26.79 weeks. In 2024, there have been significant improvements in the delivery of vacant properties with the average vacancy turnaround time at 20.64 weeks. The Council continues to identify and implement measures to reduce turnaround times to a maximum target of 16- 20 weeks.

CCTV monitoring signs cannot be installed on vacant housing stock where there are no CCTV cameras in operation. To justify the necessity of implementing a CCTV Scheme for environmental enforcement issues at a specific location, for issues such as illegal dumping, evidence to prove necessity is based on the number of:

Before proposing a CCTV scheme, SDCC has to demonstrate, in accordance with the codes of practice, that less intrusive measures have been considered.

South Dublin has a listing of sites across the county in which less intrusive measures are being deployed and it is only where these less intrusive measures fail that a business case for the deployment of a CCTV scheme may be prepared for recommendation by the CCTV oversight board to the Chief Executive for authorisation.