Issue - meetings

Question from Willie Lynch, Dunoon Community Council

Mr Lynch read out his submitted question as follows;

The Glenmorag car park has been a dumping ground for a number of years for old, unwanted caravans. We have been told that a Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) needs to be in place before action. I suggest that these items are un-roadworthy, dilapidated and have obviously been abandoned there. In addition, there are no markings to identify ownership. In other words, they have been dumped by persons unknown.

Why can action not be taken quickly to remove them in order to destroy them?

Response from Committee / Head of Roads and Infrastructure Services

The Chair advised Mr Lynch that item 8 - Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO) Update on the agenda should address TRO processes and the Head of Roads and Infrastructure Services confirmed this and that the TRO process is designed to give additional powers over and above what currently exists.

Councillor Yvonne McNeilly suggested options could be explored around upcycling caravans, regardless of road worthiness.

Questions from Kenny Matheson, Dunoon Community Council

Mr Matheson read out his submitted questions as follows;

1.    Dunoon Community Council (DCC) previously asked the Area Committee to ask the Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) about the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Ashgrove Care Home and they failed to answer. The Care Commission revealed the true number of deaths to be 36 residents who died between March 2020 - March 2021. Can the Area Committee ask once again why they hid the number and denied that Ashgrove was the epicentre of Covid-19 in Dunoon?;

2.    DCC want an independent enquiry into what happened at Ashgrove and how many residents came from hospitals in Greater Glasgow and Clyde without being tested and did any patients come to Ashgrove knowing they had Covid-19; and

3.    DCC have been denied access to the New Chief Officer, can the Area Committee ask why we have been denied access?

Response from Committee

The Chair stated that the figures were released when the Area Committee met with the HSPC but that consideration should be taken that each figure is a person and the situation remains ongoing and needs to be handled sensitively. The Chair added that initiating an independent enquiry is out with the remit of the Area Committee and that this would be undertaken at a national level.

Councillor McNeilly agreed with the Chair and advised that the issue is a national matter and will be addressed at the highest level when the First Minister conducts a national enquiry at the appropriate time.

In the absence of a relevant officer the Committee Manager confirmed that he would request that the Chief Officer of the HSCP arrange to contact Mr Matheson as appropriate.