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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, January 16, 2012

MOTION NO. 9

MOTION: Councillor E. Tuffy

That this Council, noting that around April 2011 almost 19,000 households in the County met the household income criteria for the granting of a waiver entitling them to a minimum number of black and brown bin collections in a year, and noting that as from April 2012 the waiver system operated and funded for many years by the Council, and currently implemented by Greyhound Waste Management, will be completely ended, requests the Manager to write immediately to to Minister Phil Hogan, conveying to him the strong view of the Council that the National Waiver System proposed in the Programme for Government be drawn up and implemented as soon as possible preferably by April 2012 and certainly in 2012. 

REPORT:

If the motion is passed, the terms of the motion will be conveyed to the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and upon receipt, a copy of the reply will be circulated to the Members.