COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, September 08, 2025
QUESTION NO. 6
QUESTION: Councillor Y. Collins
To ask the Chief Executive for an update in relation to the number of public lighting outages in areas which have not yet been upgraded to LED lighting and the average timescale for repair
REPLY:
- Number of Current Outages per LEA
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LEA |
No. Of Outages as of 02/09/25 |
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Clondalkin |
128 |
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Firhouse-Bohernabreena |
28 |
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Lucan |
5 |
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Palmerstown-Fonthill |
28 |
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Rathfarnham-Templeogue |
53 |
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Tallaght Central |
55 |
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Tallaght South |
55 |
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Total 352 |
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(which is 6% of our total remaining stock of 6,000 SOX fittings) |
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- Average Timescale for Repair
These repairs are all the older type orange low pressure sodium (SOX) fittings. The replacement lamps for these fittings are no longer available. If the lamps were available, the turnaround time between reporting of the outage to our maintenance contractor and the repair of the fitting is contractually 14 working days or less. As stated above, there are no lamps available on the open market.
The only option open to us is to use old lamps harvested from estates in the county that are being upgraded to LED. Due to resource issues within ESB Networks, the rollout of this upgrade programme has been seriously impeded.
Therefore it is difficult to forecast how many lamps we may or may not have available to us at any given time to carry out repairs, and as such, we cannot provide an average timescale for repair. However, we do try and address the oldest outages first.