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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 09, 2012

QUESTION NO.2

QUESTION: Councillor T. Gilligan

To ask the Manager to introduce new household waste bye laws as a matter of urgency. The Council should give residents 12 hours notice prior to collection. Currently, some residents only have a 1 hour time frame to put out / collect bins. (If a resident puts it out at 6 am and their collection is at 7 am).  Will the Manager make a statement on the matter?

REPLY:

The Council Members agreed at the Council meeting in February that the process should be deferred until the Governments National Waste Policy was published. It was thought at the time that the Policy was about to be published within a matter of weeks and that the process would not be delayed for very long. The publication of the Policy has not yet happened and it is now understand that it will be published in July – though this is not yet certain.

Should the Members wish to proceed with the process in the absence of the Waste Policy this will be pursued.