Agenda item

The following Emergency Motion to the Area Manager was tabled.

Emergency Motion in the Name of Cllr. Janet Horner

This Area Committee calls an emergency meeting with waste management, city recovery and area staff and to follow up with Minister Ossian Smyth about street cleaning and waste management in the Central Area. The streets are now very commonly littered, dirty and unhygienic, which is even more problematic during a prolonged dry spell. This committee is seeking more urgency in identifying, prioritising and immediately responding to litter and unclenliness across the city and appropriate collaboration with Dublin Town, businesses and waste management companies to dramatically improve the conditions of our streets, particularly during the summer months when people are trying to enjoy the outdoor amenities of the city more.

ORDER:  Order.

The following motions to the Area Managers were tabled.

NORTH INNER CITY

Item 1

Motion in the name of Councillor Janet Horner

This committee calls on the Department of Education to open up their grounds on Marlborough Street throughout the summer months, either on a regular basis or in collaboration with Dublin Town and the local area office to organise family fun days in recognition of the importance of open spaces in the city centre area.

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 2

Motion in the name of Councillor Janet Horner

This committee calls for the Central Area office, Parks and the North Central Area office to work together to restore and maintain the pitch quality at the Alfie Byrne Road pitches.

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 3

Motion in the name of Councillor Janet Horner

This committee calls for a pilot education and public engagement project on the street names in the Dublin Central area, starting with an initial small group of streets, aiming to educate the public on the origins and evolution of commonly known street names and the movements and eras that they emerged from and provide another way to engage with the history of the city

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 4

Motion in the name of Councillor Nial Ring

That this committee instructs the Area Manager to investigate the possibility of CCTV cameras being installed on Belvedere Place with the specific of deterring the continual illegal dumping on the street and, in particular, outside the Georgian Montessori school at number 40.

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 5

Motion in the name of Councillor Nial Ring

Further to my Motion to the CAC in October 2022, and given the huge disquiet in the area as the realisation sets in that it is proposed to permanently remove the inward bound bus stop on the North Strand Road at the corner of Strandville Avenue (No 617 already removed) and the outward bound bus stop on North Strand Road between Charleville Avenue and Bayview Avenue (No. 4384 still there), this committee requests DCC engineers and the Clontarf to City centre Project team to reexamine this decision and, using their undoubted professional skills to come up with an innovative yet practical  engineering solution which will result in the retention of these much used and much needed bus stops. Local residents are quite insistent that they be listened to and that these bus stops are retained. They are also somewhat perplexed as to how given the climate crisis that, on the one hand, DCC and Government want to encourage more use of public transport and on the other hand, remove much used bus stops, which they rightly perceived as being a direct contradiction to the legally binding aims and goals of the Paris Agreement, the Government Climate Action Plan, Dublin City Council's Climate Action Plan and the UN Sustainable Development Goals”

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 6

Motion in the name of Councillor Nial Ring

That this committee agrees that local residents in North Strand will be consulted on the selection of projects/initiatives being funded under our Discretionary Fund (€20,000) for post Cycle lane works in the area.

ORDER:  Agreed.

CABRA GLASNEVIN

Item 1

Councillor Declan Meenagh

That the Central Area Committee believes bike bunkers are successful and we should install more of them That we write to the NTA to ask for additional funding to provide more bike bunkers in the area That we work with Dublin City Canvas to animate the bike bunkers. That we do not believe we should be carrying out a review and that instead we should work through the massive backlog of citizen requests for more bike bunkers.

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 2

Councillor Declan Meenagh

That the Central Area Committee believes that community festivals are an important part of our city. Commends all the volunteers who work tirelessly to improve the lives of people living in our city buy running these festivals. Affirms our support for existing and new community festivals. Agrees that it is DCC policy that all community festivals should be supported in a flexible way and that staff should do everything possible to encourage and promote these festivals without onerous bureaucracy.  Agrees that efforts should be made to save public money by re-using policies, providing template documents and reduce the conditions placed on community festivals by DCC

ORDER:  Agreed.

Item 3

Councillor Declan Meenagh

In light of the passing of a motion at the Special Council meeting on climate change, the Central Area agrees to arrange meetings with Sustainable Energy Communities and the housing department to talk about ways we can progress linking up DCC retrofit and private retrofits through the SEC process.

ORDER:  Agreed.