Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the insensitive manner in which subscribers to the refuse service in County Mayo are being left without such a service from Mayo County Council and are being given only ten days to source an alternative, private refuse collection service. There is no provision of a waiver for old and impoverished people. I wish to discuss whether this abdication of responsibility by Mayo County Council and the move from a public to a private refuse collection system mark the death-knell for local government in Mayo.

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