Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to return briefly to the issue of refuse collection. In my constituency, as my constituency colleague, the Minister, Deputy Naughten, would know, we have a number of people who use the tagging system. That is where one goes to a shop, buys a tag and puts it onto the bag. That system is gone. We managed, as part of the agreement with the Government, to come to an arrangement to suspend charges on people with bins. A considerable number of people in this country have been left in limbo. They are now being charged to register plus pay-by-weight. They are the only people who now have to pay by weight. Will the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, who sympathised with me on this issue, go back to the refuse company and tell it to give these people a break and treat them like everybody else?

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