Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

As the Tánaiste knows, chaos is looming in our capital city due to the inability of the Fine Gael-Labour led city council to organise fair and effective refuse collection. Despite the mirth of some Government backbenchers, this problem could be a considerable health hazard and could do enormous environmental damage. I do not know whether the Government has been struck by the huge problem that will arise if up to one quarter of the refuse of the city is not collected. I understand there are some who have not had their waste collected for the past six weeks. In reality, the problems we are now confronted with should have been foreseen by the council before it took the decision on privatisation.

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