The below Motions were raised at the January meeting of the Full Council:
Councillors Tracey O Dwyer, William Durkan, Brendan Wyse, Evie Sammon, Peggy O Dwyer, Kevin Duffy, Fintan Brett, Paul Brooks, Lumi Panaite Fahey and Tim Durkan
That Kildare County Council meets with the ESB for the purpose of agreeing a streamlined internal reporting, tracking and payment system to include an agreed turnaround timeline for repairs to public lighting.
Report: The public lighting infrastructure consists of approximately 26,000 public lights. The maintenance of public lighting is contracted to Killaree Lighting Services who are required to address all faults within an agreed timescale. A significant portion of the public lighting infrastructure consists of direct fed lighting where there is no interface between the ESB infrastructure and the Local Authority infrastructure and in these cases the public lighting contractor requires the input of the ESB to repair. Kildare County Council are in communication with the ESB to resolve the ongoing delays in the repair of public lighting faults and will arrange to meet with the ESB again in this regard.
