Tipperary County Council has been given a report card by the National Oversight and Audit Committee. It found that the Council faired well in implementing Green Flag status across the county.
At the end of 2018, 62.03% of schools in the county held a Green Flag, The national average is 51.4%..
Some of the key finding in the report for Tipperary County Council:
Environment. 98.97% of drinking water in private schemes were in compliance with statutory requirements. 31% of the County is unpolluted or litter-free, 53% is classified as slightly polluted, 13% moderately polluted and 2% significantly polluted.
With the Fire service. It took an average of 5:49 minutes for the stations to mobilise fire brigades for calls to fires and 5:54 minutes. for non-fire emergency incidents.
There were an average of 3.09 visits per head of population to public libraries and 325,124 items issued to library borrowers in 2018.
