Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Waste Charges: Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment

3:00 pm

Mr. Frank Conway:

All the information we have put out to date is publicly available. We do it in a couple of ways. We put the information out through the media, for example, to make people aware that they can access the information. We issue a comment on the report itself and we keep it as simplified as possible. We identify where prices have gone up. In odd cases prices may have gone down but more often than not we are seeing shifts upwards in pricing. The second way is that we provide all of the data. I can go through it line by line. When we started this reporting process we wanted to ensure that consumers could access the information, compare it and make a decision on it. The question always is about the homeowner who might be looking at pricing down in Kerry, for example, to refer to the HIA website example. The provider might not be available in that market but the homeowner can see what is being charged down there. Broadly, what we are seeking to do is to make the Government and key decision makers aware that we are looking at the pricing to ensure gouging is not taking place and to ensure that the consumer can access information both from a data perspective and from a comment perspective.

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