Agendas 2012

Agenda of November Ordinary Meeting of Sligo County Council to be held on Monday 5th November 2012 in The Council Chamber, County Hall, Riverside at 11am


Sligo County Council
Corporate Services
Sligo County Council
County Hall
Riverside
Sligo

Phone: 071 9111111

30th October, 2012

TO:  THE CATHAOIRLEACH AND EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL

An Ordinary Meeting of Sligo County Council will be held:

ON:     Monday, 5th November, 2012

AT:     11.00 am

IN:      The Council Chamber, County Hall, Riverside, Sligo

 

You are requested to attend.

 

F. Mac Nabb
Meetings Administrator

 

CLÁR

  1. To confirm the Minutes of the Ordinary October Meeting held on 1st October, 2012.(copy attached)
  2. To confirm the Minutes of the Sligo County Council Corporate Policy Group Meeting held on 1st October, 2012. (copy attached)
  3. To confirm Minutes of the SPC 1 Economic Development & Planning Meeting, held on 10th May, 2012. (copy attached)
  4. To approve pursuant to Section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001, the disposal of a dwelling at Ballygawley, Co. Sligo to Ms Yvonne Carroll and Mr Anthony McKeon. (previously circulated)
  5. To approve pursuant to Section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001, the disposal of a dwelling at 2, Ballina Road, Tubbercurry, Co Sligo to Brendan and Ellen McMorrow, in exchange for private house at 23, Connolly Park, Tubbercurry, Co Sligo. (previously circulated)
  6. To approve pursuant to Section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001, the disposal of lands at Grange, Barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo to St Molaise Gaels, Grange, Co. Sligo. (previously circulated)
  7. To approve pursuant to Section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001, the disposal of land (Plot A) at Ballincar, Rosses Point Road, Sligo, in exchange for land (Plot B) at Ballincar, Rosses Point Road, Sligo. (previously circulated)   
  8. To consider the position in relation to future costs relating to the Taking-in-Charge of estates. 
  9. To note the 2012/2013 Sligo County Council Winter Service Plan. (copy attached)
  10. To note Social Housing Investment Programme 2012 – 2014 Additional allocation of €812,000 (report attached)
  11. To seek approval to borrowing a sum not exceeding €7.5m by way of Loan for 20 years to replace overdraft borrowings for the Revenue account and to continue with a €4m temporary overdraft for the period up to 31st March 2013. (report to follow)
  12. To note the funding received from the Interreg IVA Priority 1, Theme 2 Ireland, Northern Ireland and West Scotland Border Uplands Project, (SEUPB Ref. No. 007170), and to approve the associated expenditure involved with the implementation of the ICBAN led Project. (report attached)
  13. To note and consider the ‘Putting People First’ document as recently launched by the Minister for Environment Community and Local Government. (copy attached)
  14. To note the announcement of the combined IPB and the Gathering Ireland Fund awards scheme to support Gathering Ireland Events and Activities at local level.   (report attached)
  15. To set a date for the Annual Budget Meeting.
  16. Presentation by Finian Joyce, Chief Fire Officer, Leitrim County Council re Cross Border Driving Change Project. 

DEFERRED MOTIONS

  1. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor G. Mullaney and Councillor P. McGrath
    “To call on the Director of Services for Housing, Ms Dorothy Clarke to allow lands in Collooney, beside the GAA pitch, for use by the Collooney Allotment Group.”
  2. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor P. McGrath
    “To call on Sligo County Council to extend the sewerage system at Knockbeg, Collooney and to provide an estimate costing.”
  3. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan
    “To ask the Planning Section have consultations taken place with An Post regarding the relocation of letter boxes throughout the county.”

MOTIONS

  1. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor G. Mullaney
    “To call on Director of Services to commence the process of ‘Taking in Charge’ the estate known as “Church View”, Collooney, Co Sligo.”
  2. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus
    “To ask the County Manager to provide a report for the November meeting outlining the consequences to the services delivered by Sligo County Council caused by the redeployment of a large number of staff currently employed by this Council.

    In particular the elected members need to be clearly and fully informed of such proposed job cutbacks and presented with a detailed document showing within which services these cutbacks will occur, the grades and number of staff involved and the resultant effects of these job losses on service delivery.

    Further, this report should also include clear reference to what rationale has been used to determine the level of job losses.”
  3. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus
    "Some time ago NAMA established a new company – Nama Asset Residential Property Services Ltd – to identify and acquire from debtors, properties suitable for social housing. This Council now asks the County Manager to provide a report of the engagement between Sligo County Council and Nama Asset Residential Property Services Ltd in relation to securing such housing units in County Sligo to provide homes for those on Sligo County Councils housing list.  Such report should indicate the number of housing units, if any, identified as suitable for social housing in County Sligo; when it is likely that such units would be allocated to those in need of housing and full details of correspondence relating to this matter."
  4. To consider the following motion as submitted byCouncillor P. Barry
    “To ask the County Manager to provide sufficient funding in the 2013 Budget to take all housing estates into our charge.”
  5. To consider the following motion as submitted byCouncillor M. Clarke
    “To call on Sligo County Council to invite members of the National Executive of St Vincent de Paul to address the council on the effect the government’s austerity programs and the recession, is having on the people of Sligo.”
  6. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Clarke
    “That this Council notes the intention of the government to seize and turn over to its newly established centralised utility, Irish Water, ownership or control of Sligo's entire sanitary services operations, including all lakes and other sources from which the county's raw water is drawn, the county's water treatment plants, it’s public water distribution network, water towers, and metering stations, as well as all sewerage processing plants, associated sewerage pipe infrastructure and other works, the said operations, the property of the people, and a core provision of the council's functions, having a value in the order of hundreds of millions of Euros, and crucial to the county's social and economic well-being and development, believes that the removal of the ownership or control of the services from the people and the council as planned or envisioned by the government, would have ruinous consequences for the county, result in relatively poor local service, strip the council of vital income and purpose, make for uncontrollable increases in charges, a situation as already evidenced in the kind and scale of increases which the Energy Regulator, who is to have ultimate responsibility for water and sewerage service charges, has allowed in respect of electricity and gas supplies, and the prospect of privatisation. We elected members of the Council, therefore, now make known our concerns at the government's proposed plan or aims in regard to the future of the sanitary services, will immediately seek the opinion of senior counsel as to our powers as representatives of the people in the matter, and, further, will solicit the views of sectors set to be affected by the government’s proposed action, these being farming, industry, service and commercial interests, health, schools, community centers and, not least households.”
  7. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Clarke
    “To call on Sligo County Council to call on the Minister for the Environment to give the same status to households who live on Class 3 roads as the households who live in unfinished estates and exclude them from the household charge and the property charge.”
  8. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Gormley
    “To ask the Director of Services for the up-to-date position on the upgrading of the Water Treatment Plant at Lough Talt and to indicate when work will commence on this long awaited project.”
  9. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor S. MacManus
    “In light of the impact on the local economy of further financial costs to students and families, Sligo County Council calls on the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn not to increase the Student Contribution Charge at a time when many families are struggling to pay the current fee of €2,250 per year.  This Council further calls on Minister Quinn to protect the student maintenance grant at a time when many families rely on this financial assistance to put their family members through college.”
  10. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor P. Barry
    “To ask Sligo County Council to commence the process of Taking in Charge Seaview Estate in Carney village.”
  11. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan
    “To ask the County Manager to outline how many public lights are the responsibility of Sligo County Council that are installed in the County, and what is the yearly cost to maintain them.”
  12. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan
    “To call on the Director of Services to ensure that housing staff are more accessible to elected members.” 
  13. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. McGarry
    “In response to recent reports which have confirmed that Sligo General Hospital is operating with a budgetary deficit. I call on Sligo County Council to ask the Minister if the allocated budget is realistic given the operational costs of the hospital and to review this budget in light of these findings.”
  14. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. McGarry
    “To call on Minister Reilly to provide Breastcheck with the resources necessary to enable them to provide a follow up mammography service until the necessary staff are recruited at Sligo General Hospital to provide same.”
  15. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. McGarry
    “In light of the recent report by the Legal Rights Group FLAC regarding the lengthy delays in the processing of Social Welfare Appeals, this Council calls on the Minister to make arrangements for the provision of a more expedient service.”
  16. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Lundy
    “That Sligo County Council calls on the Minister for Social Protection, Joan Burton T.D. to fast track the delay in processing Social Welfare appeals.”
  17. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Gormley
     “As Parts 1 and  2 of the Regeneration Programme of Connolly Park is complete consisting of 20 houses, that this Council calls on the Department of the Environment to allocate funding to have the estate completed.”
  18. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Lundy
    “I will ask if the Local Government Reform proposals, announced by Minister Hogan on 16th October last, have any negative impact on the outdoor staff of Sligo County Council.”
  19. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Collery
    “I, Councillor Thomas Collery would like to ask Sligo County Council to take charge of Abhainn Mór Estate and also Radharc na gCaislean, Collooney, Co. Sligo. The ref no. P104994. There are 80 houses in this estate.”
  20. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Collery
    “I, Councillor Thomas Collery would like to ask Sligo County Council to provide funding for 50 meters of footpath at Church View, Collooney, Co. Sligo.”
  21. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor T. Collery
     “I, Councillor Thomas Collery would like to ask Sligo County Council to contact Eircom to come up with a satisfactory price for the removal of poles outside of peoples’ houses.”
  22. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree
    “That this Council calls for the release of Marian Price on health and humanitarian grounds and requests an explanation for the incarceration of Marian Price from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Justice in Northern Ireland and First and Deputy First Ministers in Northern Ireland.”
  23. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree
    “That the Council takes in charge the public lighting in the Brookfield Housing Estate, Cliffoney.”
  24. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor J. Queenan
    “To ask the Director of Services to outline why Stokane NS will not be a polling station in the forthcoming referendum.”
  25. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Bree
    “Noting that the elected members of the County Council at the Council meeting held on the 16th of January 2012 decided that the Council be provided with a comprehensive report on funding, grant aid and assets donated by the County Council to the Model Niland Gallery since January 2007, including details of when the funding was approved and the source of the funding; and concerned that the County Manager has not provided the information to date; this Council calls on the County Manager to provide the information without further delay.”
  26. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor G. Mullaney
    “That this Local Authority commends cross party support for the Children’s Referendum proposal and calls for a resounding ‘Yes’ vote on November 10th next, to protect children and their families.”
  27. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor M. Gormley
    “That this Council calls on the Minister for Transport to increase funding for county roads in 2013 and that he make available a special allocation for Class 3 roads.”
  28. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Mulvey
    “To ask Sligo County Council to fit a water grate along Road 4 at Carrownacleigha Coolaney.”
  29. To consider the following motion as submitted by Councillor D. Mulvey
    “To ask Sligo County Council to examine Road 6 at Cultibar, Coolaney  with the possibility of removing the old stone wall and hedging and erecting a new fence to improve visibility for motorists using this road.”
  30. Votes of Sympathy
  31. Votes of Congratulations
  32. Conferences
  33. Correspondence
    1. Letter dated 17th September, 2012 from Senator Imelda Henry re N4 from Castlebaldwin to Collooney.
    2. Letter dated 17th September, 2012 from Senator Imelda Henry re funding for coastal erosion in Strandhill.
    3. Letter dated 1st October, 2012 from Monaghan Town Council regarding resolutions passed at their September meeting.
    4. Letter dated 9th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality re prostitution and trafficking in Ireland.
    5. Letter dated 11th October, 2012 from the Office of the Taoiseach acknowledging receipt of correspondence.
    6. Letter dated 12th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for Justice and Equality acknowledging receipt of correspondence.
    7. Letter dated 12th October, 2012 from Iarnród Éireann re the train service timetable on the Dublin Sligo line.
    8. Letter dated 15th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources acknowledging receipt of correspondence.
    9. Letter dated 15th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for Health acknowledging receipt of correspondence.
    10. Email dated 15th October, 2012 from the Area Manager of HSE, Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan re services at Mulholland House, Tubbercurry.
    11. Letter dated 15th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government acknowledging receipt of correspondence re Community Alert Committees.
    12. Letter dated 15th October, 2012 from the Office of the Minister for Education and Skills acknowledging receipt of correspondence re St. Angela’s.
    13. Letter dated 16th October, 2012 from Connacht Gold re review of their stores operation.
    14. Email dated 17th October, 2012 from Leitrim County Council regarding resolution passed at their October meeting.
    15. Letter dated 17th October, 2012 from Offaly County Council re resolution passed at a recent meeting.
    16. Letter dated 18th October, 2012 from the NRA re the N4 between Castlebaldwin and Collooney.
    17. Letter dated 22nd October, 2012 from Senator Mac MacSharry re the N4 between Castlebaldwin and Collooney.
    18. Letter dated 23rd October, 2012 from the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources regarding the National Broadband Plan.
    19. Letter dated 25th October, 2012 from the Department of Health concerning legislation to help deal with suicide.
  34. Matters Arising from Minutes
  35. Any Other Business

 


Meeting Date 05/11/2012