Mr. Adrian Kane:

To follow on from that in terms of looking to how we could improve the environment, there are multiple providers so there are more trucks than are needed.

From what we can see, most of them are carbon emitters. There is a transition in the other four cities to biofuels in particular, because it is state provision and that is what they are trying to get to. I live in a terraced house in Cork, and all along are rows of bins. There are four bins outside your house. If you were living in any similar European city, there would a bring centre at the end of the road in which you would put your stuff, and then one provider would take it away at the end of the week. Instead, we have three providers on my street three mornings per week, blocking up the streets. No offence to Mr. Gleason, but that is what happens from 5.30 a.m. to 6 a.m. It makes no sense and is not environmentally friendly. You cannot do anything about that once you continue to have side-by-side provision. If you get back to a situation with one provider, and you are building in those standards, you can then have collective bins for people. You do not even need trucks in the areas where you can bring out your bag and drop it in a place where the truck comes and collects it once per week.