Ms Mary Cahill:

Regarding the cost, there is a lot more cost involved with this policy and other policies we have introduced. The foam stream machine cost almost €30,000. We still do not have full feedback on its success. Wicklow County Council does not have a parks department, unlike Dún Laoghaire which was mentioned by Deputy Devlin and which has quite a large parks department. We do not. We are the poor neighbour.

A lot of the budgets are filtered out through the municipal districts for managing this type of thing. They are aware that their budgets will have to be increased next year, so our local property tax, LPT, meeting will be very interesting.