Call for local authority to take back domestic waste service
Each Municipal District could put out tender says Cllr Noel Connolly
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Kildare County Council has been asked to take back the domestic waste collection service from private companies.
But the council’s Director of Services is against the idea.
The matter is to go for consideration to the council’s Environmental Strategic Policy Committee (SPC).
After debate at the January 25 meeting of the council, the proposer, Cllr Noel Connolly, said he was surprised with the support from some members.
At the January 25 meeting of the council, Cllr Connolly proposed that the council recognises that domestic waste collection should be in the control and ownership of local authorities and that a consistent service should be offered to all homes county wide, including glass and organic waste collection.
Speed worries at popular Kildare walking route
Council to examine need for speed ramps on road between Carton Avenue and Carton Demesne
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Kildare County Council is to look at the possibility of introducing speed calming measures near a popular walking route in Maynooth.
At the council’s Clane-Maynooth Municipal meeting on December 4, Cllr Naoise O’Cearuil asked that the council introduce speed calming measures at the crossing from Carton Avenue into Carton Demesne on the Dunboyne Road - perhaps pedestrian crossing or ramps.
He said the car speeding on the R157 at the crossing was “lethal.”
In a report to members the Municipal District Office said it will undertake a traffic survey at this location to ascertain if there is a speeding issue. “If an issue is detected, proposals will be developed in line with Kildare County Council’s Traffic Calming Policy and implemented subject to available funding.” The council did say however that the