Question: Councillor D. Smith “To ask the Chief Executive how often the estates of Ashton Broc and Castleview in Swords are on the litter picking schedule?”

Reply: The main litter-picking rota is targeted at town and village centres, and areas of high pedestrian footfall to/from main commuter and business/retail locations. Most peripheral residential areas are litter picked on a non-scheduled basis and when the crews are available. This system works very well in tandem with residents associations’ community clean-ups which we are happy to support with bags/gloves etc and the bags are removed by Operations staff when we are notified of these clean-ups.