We had a battle in my county when we set a waste charge. Two months later, the collectors increased their charges as a result of the county manager increasing the tiphead charge. The local authority members had no say whatever in this. The manager simply increased the tiphead charge and the collectors passed it on. This service seems to be a money-making enterprise for the collectors, who appear to be doing very well. Recently, the collectors in my county refused to give people an annual ticket on the grounds that there would be further increases in charges. Then a new collector entered the picture, and instead of the charge going up, we had a reduction of €5. We need this type of extra competition in refuse collection.