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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 25, 2017

QUESTION NO.18

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

To ask the Chief Executive to provide a report on the costs of cleansing of illegal dumping for years 2015/2016 and 2017 to date, and to provide report on costs of the costs of additional litter installed for same period.

REPLY:

Costs to clean up illegally dumped waste in 2015, 2016 & 2017 are provided below as are details of costs of providing the litter bin service and the provision of new litter bins. Costs shown for 2017 are to the end of August.  It should be noted that not all of the waste disposal costs have been accounted for as yet in 2017.

 Year   Cost of clean up of illegal dumping  Cost of provision of litter bin service   Cost of provision of new bins etc 
 2015  €1,306,255  €430,861  €33,044
 2016  €1,378,200  €485,433  €43,710
 2017  €776,895 to end of August  €306,660 to end of August  €26,798 to end of August