Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would have to talk to the Ministers, Deputies Darragh O'Brien and Eamon Ryan, about the matter. I know of plenty of examples internationally of both privatisation and remunicipalisation of waste services. There have been different results in different cases. I might be wrong but I would have thought that whether councils are willing to make the investment, pay compensation and do all of those things would be a matter for themselves.

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