'Two dog' limit for council homes should be enforced, says Tipperary Councillor

A councillor in Tipperary has asked the council’s Environment & Climate Action Section to monitor the control of dogs in estates in the county, saying many tenants of the council’s homes are ignoring the ‘2 dog’ rule per unit.

Independent Cllr Andy Moloney who is based in Cahir raised the issue at this month's Tipperary/Cahir/Cashel Municipal District meeting.

“In some houses where council tenants are in, there’s dogs running amok,” began the councillor.

“That has to be sorted out,” he told the meeting. “We can’t have one section of the council saying they can only have two dogs if we’re not going to clamp down on it,” he said.

Cashel-based councillors Declan Burgess and Liam Browne also spoke about issues relating to the control of dogs in their town of Cashel.

“If you go around Cashel on any given day, you’ll see dogs running around off their leads, going over and back across the road. There’s a particular issue around Wallers’ Lot with dogs having the potential to cause accidents.

It has to be solved before there’s a serious accident,” said Cllr Browne.

He called for more support to be given to the local dog warden. Cllr Browne then brought up the problem of dog fowling around the county.

He asked the council if it was possible to run a campaign about dog littering to raise awareness around the issue in the district.

A spokesperson for the council’s Environment & Climate Action Section responded to Cllr Moloney’s query regarding tenants only being allowed to have a maximum of two dogs.

The spokesperson stated that that is a condition of the tenancy agreement for tenants and that they will speak to the housing department in regards to the matter. “I’ll speak to housing and see how both departments can work together to enforce that,” she said.

The spokesperson also said that the council had recently applied for more bags for dog fouling and are waiting for that funding to come through.