Seanad debates
Thursday, 13 February 2003
Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).
We are fortunate in Kilkenny to have a litter warden who is very good at his job and very conscientious. We have 80,000 people in the city and county and only one litter warden, which is not adequate. Litter is a problem in the context of addressing the whole waste issue. I look forward to the Minister and his Department providing funding for local authorities to hire more litter wardens who do a tough but important job, particularly in an environment where waste charges are increasing at a significant rate. People seek to avoid paying these charges by taking the easy option of discarding their waste by the side of the road on a dark night. That is an increasing problem and I hope the Minister does something to address it.
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