Mr. Daithí Doolan:

The cost of collecting illegal waste in Dublin City Council is €1 million per year, according to RTÉ, and in South Dublin it is €1.4 million every year. That comes out of the public Exchequer. When we asked the other comparative cities about it, they said they had no problem with illegal dumping. That came as a relief to me because we do not have to live with illegal dumping. There is a solution, and it is the re-municipalisation of waste. That is the one of they key cornerstones of tackling illegal dumping that is blighting our communities.