Louth County Council

Louth County Council

All memos, correspondence (sent and received including attachements) management letters sent between the local government auditor and the council chief executive between 1st october 2017 and 21st September 2018

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1)Please provide a copy of all guidance prepared by your council for the event of a no deal Brexit and a hord border 2) Has your council set up any teams to deal with issues arising from Brexit? IF so please state the number of people employed in these teams, and the total cost of running these teams in the 16/17, 17/18 and 18/19 financial years. 3) please state any other spending on preparation for Brexit since 1st April 2016 by your council that is extractable within the cost limit.

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1. Any and all audits/ reports etc in the possession of the chief executive, or in the possession of senior council officials, relating to Councillors ethical declarations under the Local government Act. This should include any audits/ reviews etc carried out that reviewed the compliance of coucnillors with their obligations under the Local Government Act, in terms of completing their ethical declarations in accordance with the Act.The time frame I am referring to , in relation to any such audits/ review etc is from January 2016-present. 2. Any correspondence to/from the Council CEO that relates to any such audits/ reviews etc, from January 2016-present.

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The number of regulated paid for Council car parking spaces available on street, The number of regulated paid for council car parking spaces available off street. The number of pay by mobile parking sessions processed in 2017 if any. The number of pay and display parking sessions processed in 2017 if any The combined value of all pay by mobile parking sessions processes in 2017. The combined value of all pay and display parking sessions processed in 2017. The start adn end dates for the current contracts if applicable . The renewal dates for the current contracts if applicable

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In relation to the vacant site register, I am seeking any documents showing the breakdown of the vacant sites, based on whether they are a residential land and b regeneration land. 2. In relation to the vacant site register, I am seeking any documents demonstrating which zoned residential sites vacant during the previous year which are restricted from development due to by lack of infrastructure (including drainage sewage etc.

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1 the preliminary assessment and quantification of vacant sites in your local authority area which all local authorites were obliged to undertake according to Circular PL7/2016 issued by the Department of Environment, Community and local governement . This states at page6 that local authorities must i undertake a preliminary assessment and quantification of the number and location of potential vacant sites in their functional areas. 2. The report by the Chief executive recommending designated areas in the developement plan in which the levy could be applied whihc the circular also states must be written circular p.6 ii and presented to elected members. 3. Documents showing the list of sites to be placed on the vacant site register post verification that the sites were vacant during the previous year, as required by the circular p .6 V if different from above. 4. A Schedule of registered owners of vacant sites included in the vacant sites register to whom notices were issued Circular p.7 viii 5. Any communications by way of emai or written memos and records minutes etc of meetings between the department and your local authority pretaining to the monitoring of the implementation of the levy provisions as required by the circular

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How much has the council spent on Irish Language services, projects grants events etc. During the last 4 years? 2 A year by year breakdown of those costs during that period. 3. what percentage of total expenditure year by year in those four years does this equate to ?

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a) Which if any social housing buildings i.e apartment blocks , etc) were built with reynobond PE cladding reynolux Alumimium sheets Celotex RS5000 PIR thermal insulation b) The contractors responsible for part (a) c) The Cost of these projects and specifically the cladding costs.

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How many qualified people on the social housing waiting list are currently on standby due to garda clearance issues and or convictions. When your local authority drafts and submits reports in relation to numbers on the social housing waiting list does this include applicants on standby because of garda clearance issues and or convictions? Are applicants classified as travellers or homeless who are on standby as a result of garda clearance issues and or convictions included in the statistics you submit to your council meetings/ housing Strategice policy committee/ministerial department . How does you local authority quantify the standby timeframe applied to people on standby? Are those applicants qualified and on the social housing waiting list who are on standby because of garda clearance issues convictions able to acess HAP while on standby? Are they able to access any other housing service while on this standby list and if yes then which services? At what point in the process from time of application for social housing is garda clearance submitted to the gardai for an applicant? Is this applied to all social housing applicants consisstently and if not why? What is the process within your housing authority for notifying applicants when they are placed on standby and what is the appeals process that an applicant can follow if they are unhappy with the decision of the housing authority in putting them on standby? What is the breakdown of applicants placed on standby in your housing authority (per category of applicant) per annum for the periods of 2017, 2016, 2015

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1) details of all investigations carried out by Louth County Council and all works carried out by Louth county Council pursuant to a complaint by a member of the public on the 3rd August 2015 in relation to a fall concerning four raised footpath slabs on the footpath outside of Tesco's premises. 2) copies of all investigations carried out pursuant to such complaints together with all details of works carried out on this section of tne footpath. 3) Details of all technical reports written and all reviews carried out by any Engineer or Technical Officer or Risk Manager of Louth County Council pursuant to the receipt of this complaint from a member of the public dated 3rd August 2015.Note the incident is alleged to have occurred on the 23rd June 2015 at 14:00 hours 4) Details of any complaints received by memebers of the public between 2008 and 2015. 5) details of all works done on this footpath on West ST between 2008 and 2015.

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All correspondence on file relating to the purchase by Foscadh Housing Association Ltd of an apartment at 21 Rivercourt, Rathmullan Road, Drogheda, Co. Louth

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How much the council spent on Christmas decorations for the years 2012,2013,2014,2015 2016 and 2017. adn it projected spend for 2018.

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Does your local authority stand to receive or has received a payment from Irish Public Bodies IPB Insurance under that companies release of retained earnings?2. If yes how much money? How much has been received by your local authority to date?3. If money has been received or is pledged to be received on what activities or works precisley has your local authority decided to spend this money? 4. If there is money being spent or pledged to be spent on footpath improvements, how much money is being spent on this? 5. On what basis were locations for this work decided? 6 . Was there any suggestions or recommendations from IPB as to how or where these retained earnings should be spent? If so, could you furnish me with a copy of this correspondence?

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I have some questions around your IT systems. • What Mobile Device Management Solution are you using? And when is the renewal date? • What functionality requirements do you have? • How many mobile device users do you have? • What type of handsets do you have? • If you have an existing Mobile Device Management solution, what is your chosen deployment method? E.g. BYOD, COBE, COPE, BYOL etc. • What type of device monitoring tool are you currently using? • What are you using for instant messaging? • What solution are you using for Mass Communication? E.g bleepers? And when is the renewal date? • What is your mobile budgets per year? • Who is your mobile phone provider? • Who is your incumbent provider for Software solutions? • Who is the decision maker for IT Purchasing? • What email exchange server are you running? Cloud or on premise? • Who do you currently use for penetration testing? • Do you currently use a document security or digital rights management tool? If so what do you use?

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1) the amount of residential zoned land is privately owned within the local authority area( where possible can you please indicate the site locations. 2. The amount of this land, registered on the Vacant site register. 3) the number of residential units/ homes owned by the local authority which are (a) occupied by tenants and (b)vacant.4) the number of social and affordable houses which have been delievered by the local authority in each of the years above via (a) construction by the local authoirty (B) construction under Part V of the planning and Development (c) one off purchase by the local authority (D) delivered by an approved housing body and (e) the long term leasing of residential premises by the local authority . 5(a) the yearly capital budget for housing construction and (b) the captial expenditure on housing construction 6(a) the number of people in receipt of a HAP payment broken down by year (half year 2018) (b) the macro cost of HAP payments per year.

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Any details of any payments contracts or other business arrangements by or on behalf of the local authority with the following telecoms companies whether related to use of the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANS) or otherwise for the past five years (2014,2015,2016,2017,2018) in relation to the following companies eNET, enasc éireann teoranta Enet Telecommunications Airspeed. Where there were related meetings on such payments fees, monies contacts or other business arrangements please can you provide the following records if they exist agendas attendees minutes briefing notes details on alternative bidders correspondence setting up and following up on the meeting and any post tender autits or related documentation on preformance of the tenders this should include but not be limited to where Local Authority pays fees on behalf of a local authority library to access a MAN telecoms service or where the local authority pays to connect own buildings MAN or related telecoms service

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The amount spent on tea in the council in 2015,2016,2017 adn 2018. The amount spent on coffee in the council offices in the same years. The amount spent on biscuits in the council offices in the same years. What biscuits were most commonly bought in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

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Details of any complaints received from members of the public in relation to this area of West Street between the years 2008 abd 2015. 2 Details of any works done on the footpath on west street in this area between 2008 adn 2018. 3. Details of all investigations carried out by Louth County Council in relation to trip and fall accidents in 2015. 4. Details of any technical reports written or reviews carried out by any Engineer on behalf of Louth County Council from 2008 to 2018 in relation to the area of West Street outlined above

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I am requesting the release of transcripts of any correspondence between the council and any individuals who sought the endorsement of councillors to run for the presidency this year

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We require to be provided with all records held by Louth County Council in relation to this location whether in the nature of footpath maintenance records, road opening records, permits for third parties to carry out works etc.

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a) the number of attempts made to access websites categorised as pornography from council computers or other devices on a month by month basis. B) a breakdown of these figures by department. C) a list of which teams if any, have legitimate reasons for accessing , investigating or categorising pornographic websites. D) The number of above access requests that were from teams with this legitimate reason for access. E) An Indication of how many appear to be purposeful requests how many appear to innocent (embedded links and cookies etc) and how many are unclear. F) An outline of what action is being taken to improve the situation. G) The number of attempts that have been investigated and any management action taken

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1. How many allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassement, rape, stalking or other forms of sexual misconduct have been reported to the council in the years 2015,2016,2017 and 2018. 2, If recorded how many of these complaints were made by staff members during the same years. 3, If recorded how many of these complaints were made by staff members about other staff members during the same years. 4. If recorded how many complaints were made be members of the public during the same years. 5. If recorded please break down the job roles of the people the complaints were made about during the same years. 6. If recorded were any complaints made by or against public representatives such as councillors during the same years?

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A list of publicly owned buildings kown to have asbestos present, including but not limited to schools, hospitals council buildings and social housing.. B) Any records pertaining to asbestos inspections for buildings in part (a) c) for buildings containing asbestos information on which parts of those buildings are affected. d) Any records detailing action taken to remove or reduce asbestos in said buildings.

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Records on the number of call outs for fire crews to assist paramedics in removing overweight people from their home in 2008,2016,2017 and 2018. The number of call outs for fire crew to assist paramedics in 2017 and 2018 reason why county age of patient

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Records on assaults on traffic wardens each year over the last five years including type of assault , age of assailant and victim, where the assault occurred and any prosecutions

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A copy of all correspondences between the council and FAI CEO John Delaney from Jan 1 2010 to present in relation to funding issued by the FAI to the council . A copy of any internal memos notes, or minutes in relation to meetings regarding FAI fund between FAI CEO John Delaney and the council from Jan 1 2010 to present

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Records in relation to any and all investigations carried out regarding illegal dumping of fuel at Upper Faughart, Co Louth between the 1st April 2011 adn 30th November 2014.

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All xmas gifts received and given by senior staff of Louth CoCo during Dec 2015. Details of costs for all official xmas staff parties including lunches and dinners paid for Louth CoCo in Dec 2015.

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A copy of the report re findings of the internal investigation (not Garda Investigation) into irregularities in rent collection as per Local Gov Audit Service 2012 report

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(RAS) All correspondence from any source representing Thomas Murphy 7 North Quay, Drogheda & details of contracts with him, correspondence between DOS & other officials in the council or other state agencies regarding these contracts

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How many parking tickets issued by the local authority for driving or parking on a cycle lane in 2015 & If no fines were issued, is this due to no offences being detected by staff, or that the council's wardens do not enforce this law.

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A copy of the budget for the running & management of Louth County Hall for the years 2010-2015. Details of budgeted figures versus actual spend for the running & management of Louth County Hall for the years 2010-2015 inclusive.

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Copies of Council inspection reports (inc fire dept) of the Woodland Park halting site. A copy of the plan put in place to faciltate the removal of families and their temp accommodation from the site and legal advice regarding same in January 2016

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OOuuttlliinneedd ppeerrmmiissssiioonn ffoorr 55 hhoouusseess aatt SSttaabbaannnnoonn,, CCoo LLoouutthh,, DDaatteedd 1155tthh JJuullyy 22001100.. CClliieenntt Des Campbell, Objection 10/335 17th August 2010. Derelict house identified is not actually derelict at all (South of site No.4) Copy of said Drawing from above files

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A list of all Non-Domestic Rate accounts in credit within your authority

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The number of bariatric rescues - in which obese people have to be rescued from their homes or other buildings - carried out by fire services since January 2013 to date. I also seek the average hourly cost of a fire brigade response.

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Records inrelation tothe TidyTowns CompetitionAdjudication ReportforLouthLooking Awards, Stabannon:

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Relation to tidy towns competition 2007, Adjudication report 25/06/2007 ref. 1224, Stabannon, County Louth

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Relation to tidy towns competition 2009 Adjudication Report 25th June Ref: 1224 Stabannon County Louth

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Relation to Tidy Towns Competition 2010. Adjudication report 4th June. Ref 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

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Relation to Tidy Towns Competition 2011. Adjudication report 4th June. Ref 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

Louth County Council

Relation to tidy town competition 2011. Adjudication reqport 4th June. Ref: 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

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Relation to tidy towns competition 2013. Adjudication report 11th June. Ref 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

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Relation to Tidy Towns Competition 2014. Adjudication report 23rd June. Ref 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

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Relation to Tidy Towns Competition 2015. Adjudication report 25th June. Ref 1224 Stabannon, County Louth

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Records in relation to the former halting site at Woodland Park, Marshes Road, Dundalk created or received since January 1st, 2015 and to the possible repair, upkeep or refurbishment (including possible costs) of Woodland Park, Marshes Road, Dundalk since January 1st, 2014. All communications received or sent to DHR Communications regarding Woodland Park since January 1st, 2015. The annual cost of the contract between DHR Communications and Louth County Council and the services being provided.

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Shannon Homes Planning Reference 14450 and amendment Reference 08/650. Copies of the Compliance documents created by Louth CoCo, the planning applicant, a representative of the applicant or any other party in respect of Louth Council Council planning conditions (points listed) and a copy of the commencement notice from Shannon Homes in respect of the above planning application etc.

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RReeccoorrddss rreeggaarrddiinngg OOxxiiggeenn EEnnvviirroonnmmeennttaall LLiimmiitteedd,, OOxxiiggeenn EEnnvviirroonnmmeennttaall,, WWhheeeellbbiinn Services Limited - whether or not you are the debtor of any of these three entities, whether any of the three have contracts or any business arrangements with Louth County Council and if so what is the duration of same etc.

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Suppliers of Telecare Equipment & Funding provided over 12 months for emergency alarams etc.

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Fines, fines paid, prosecutions, complaints, dog fouling, prosecutions re. Dog fouling, dog wardens employed, dog licences issued, no of current licences