Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This morning at the Dáil reform committee, I raised a question on the status of motions passed in this House. This time last year a motion on bin charges tabled by the Government and supported by Fianna Fáil was passed. At least five measures in that motion have not been implemented. However, today privatised waste collection companies, practically all of which are registered offshore so we have no idea what profits they make, are being given carte blancheto raise waste collection charges while none of the measures the Government proposed have been implemented. They include an intensive awareness campaign to promote pay by weight, to support users in order that they can identify the best charges and to publish due lists. None of that has happened and yet the Government is giving carte blancheto these companies.

This morning the Minister, Deputy Naughten, said that we had no control over them, by which he meant the bin cartel of waste management companies which consistently lobby the Government to leave them alone and let them do what they like. The people who will pay the most are the poorest and the most vulnerable.

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