For the past three to four years, Cork County Council signed up all the parties and councillors to take the hard decisions and choose a particular system. However, getting that system up and running is proving difficult. In particular, our efforts at providing recycling facilities have been almost useless. I take some consolation from the fact that recycling centres such as bottle and newspaper banks are being developed in conjunction with groups such as Repak. This is to be welcomed. One regulation stated local recycling and bottle banks should be situated only in areas with a population of at least 1,000. We have attempted to change that regulation to refer to centres with a population of 1,000 to communities with the same population. This would allow facilities to be put in place in every rural parish, whether outside a community centre, church or school.