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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 13, 2010

MOTION NO. 15

MOTION: Councillor D. Looney

That this Council, in light of the severe inconvenience caused to many local residents due to the non-collection of bins on the August Bank Holiday and the increased health and safety risk caused by delays in collecting the newly-introduced brown bins, calls for the implementation of either (a) Bank Holiday Monday refuse collections or (b) the organisation of alternative collections for residents missing out on collections due to Bank Holidays, in advance of the October Bank Holiday.

REPORT:

As previously acknowledged, there was some inconvenience to customers on Bank Holidays since the switch to fortnightly refuse collections and, in line with previous committments, negotiations with staff representatives to provide a resolution to this issue resulted in waste collections being provided on Monday 25th October to all regular Monday routes at a cost of approximately €19,000.  Members and customers were notified by text message, web updates and twitter messages and resulted in approximately 3,700 bins being collected.