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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 08, 2025

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor Y. Collins

To ask the Chief Executive to set out in tabular form, by LEA, the areas where public lighting has been upgraded to LED and when it is envisaged that the rollout of LED will be completed throughout the rest of the County

REPLY:

Since the inception of the LED Upgrade Programme in 2015, we have upgraded approx. 22,700 PL points as of end of July 2025.

It is not currently possible to extract from our Asset Management Database upgraded estates by Local Electoral Area.

Regarding time for completion: 

• Upgrade of SOX PL fittings – we are wholly dependent on ESBN resources to support us on site to carry out this work. There are approx. 6,000 of these fittings left in the county as of end of July 2025. Currently we are upgrading on average 90 fittings a month, given their current levels of resource support. If this continues over the next four/five months, we will have this number down to 5,600 at the end of this year. Again, projecting this out at approx. 1,000 upgrades a year, we would expect to complete the SOX upgrades in the middle of 2031.

We have been given assurances that the level of resource provision from ESBN is set to improve due to some forthcoming internal outsourcing within their own organisation but have been given no indication from them of when this might happen.

• Upgrade of SON fittings – this is work that we can carry out entirely under the terms of our own maintenance contract. There are approx. 1,700 of these fittings left in the county as of end of July 2025.  We are programming to complete these upgrades by the end of 2026.