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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, February 09, 2026

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor Y. Collins

To ask the Chief Executive, once the assistance of the ESB Network subcontractors is up and running, how long it is estimated it will take to repair and/or replace the outages caused by the old obsolete low-pressure sodium 'orange' lights.

REPLY:

We can’t estimate this yet because we don’t know what level of on-site support ESB Networks will provide or how much it will speed up our LED upgrade programme. Our target for 2026 is 1,750 LED upgrades, including 1,000 low-pressure sodium replacements. This target is based on completing over 1,000 upgrades in 2025.

With the extra support from ESB Networks, we expect to exceed our target this year. The more upgrades we complete, the more lamps and spare parts we will have available to fix outages in other areas.