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Cork County Council to Consider Task Force to Deal with ‘Neighbours From Hell’
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
Cork County Coun-
cil is to consider es- tablishing a special- ised subcommittee to deal with serious an- tisocial
behavioural
issues in Council run estates. The taskforce, a mul-
ti-disciplinary team, would comprise of rep- resentatives from the Au- thority Estate Manage- ment and Environment Departments,
number of residents
are being forced out of Council run estates be- cause of having to deal with
neighbours from
hell. She said she knew of such family who
one
was refused a transfer six times because the Local Authority deemed them to be suitably housed. “We have people in our
together
with the HSE, an Garda Siochána and Tusla, the Children’s Agency. The move comes fol-
lowing the tabling of a Motion by Social Demo- crat Cllr June Murphy at a recent sitting of Cork County Council. Cllr Murphy said a
estates who are going to the toilet in playgrounds and on people’s front doors. There are people coming into the area, who do not live there, causing complete chaos. They are hurling abuse at people. They are lying down on the road stopping traffic, breaking down walls and carrying on partying at all hours of the night.” In another estate she said “neighbours have been affected by an in-
dividual who has caused hardship from the time they moved in, who has driven at
least 80mph
through the estate back- wards.” Sinn Fein Cllr Melisa Mullane said recently in her constituency in North Cork there were a num- ber of families rehoused because of anti-social be- haviour. Yet
those responsible
for the disruptive behav- iour were not relocated and, as such,
she said
the Council was failing to deal with the problem. Fellow Sinn Fein Cllr Des O’Grady said he was aware
lems as Cllr Murphy, where
neighbours
of similar prob- the
from hell were causing an entire estate to be disrup- tive.
Cllr O’Grady said he found the recent replace-
ment of two experienced housing officers who had retired, with one liaison officer, was a “retro- grade” step. He said while the new
employee was very re- sponsive and very effec- tive, he couldn’t see how it was an improvement loading a lot of work on the shoulders of one per- son.
ny Collins said “each divisional district meet
Gardaí at
Independent Cllr Dan- should
with local senior least
Fianna Fail twice a
year where they can meet face to face and raise is- sues.”
Cllr
Seamus McGrath, Chair- man of the Housing Spe- cial Purposes Committee, said he wouldn’t like to give the impression that there were a lot of prob- lems in Council estates.
Pamela Scott Has Opened it’s Door’s in Midleton
antisocial behaviour is- sues,
“Society in general has not just in Council
estates. We need to step up to the plate in terms of having adequate re- source
for Estate man-
agement, and that needs to be on the positive side as well creating commu- nity within these estates and have a properly func- tioning residential area.” Sinn Fein Cllr Rachel McCarthy said “there is good merit in putting to- gether a specialised com- mittee [comprising] of residents, representatives from the
development
company, social workers and the community Gar- da” The Housing Special
Purposes Committee is to discuss the issue further with a view to seeking ad- ditional resources.
Thursday, 2nd
August 2018
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