Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

What does the Minister say to those families who are facing yet another 10% price increase in bin charges by Greyhound? It is outrageous price gouging. Going back three years, the company was charging €16.50 per month. Now it is up to almost €30 per month, or €300 per year. Incredibly, Greyhound is claiming that one of the reasons it is increasing prices is that people are returning their bottles and cans under the deposit return scheme. People are doing as they are asked and behaving as we want them to, yet the consequence is that their bin charges go up. This underlines the fact that organising waste collection on the basis of profit does not make sense from the point of view of the environment and that of households. We need to scrap bin charges and return bin collection to the control of councils.

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