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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 09, 2019

QUESTION NO. 24

QUESTION: Councillor Mary Seery-Kearney

To ask the Chief Executive if consideration has been given to the limiting of service times for waste disposal vehicles across the county to exclude the hours when rush hour traffic usually occurs and to report thereon if this matter has been given consideration previously.

REPLY:

In our experience, because all waste collection is private, waste collection companies plan their routes to minimise time spent in traffic. For this reason, most collections start at about 5:00 a.m. and most are finished by lunchtime. Only a small numbers of services need to operate in the afternoon.

SDCC also understand that there was High Court challenge related to the matter of time regulations brought by the service providers; the High Court sided with the service providers.