Paddy Burke (Fine Gael)

In a later section the Minister will hand powers to county managers to recover the costs of collection and the provision of services in local authority areas. Heretofore, local authority members, when striking their rates and making provisions for the cost of a bin or collection at estimates time, always included an amount for a waiver. What will be the effect on local authority waivers? The manager will have the power to set the fee for collection but who will decide the waiver? Heretofore, the members had a say but with the proposal to hand over all the power to the manager will he or she have the power to decide the waiver? This issue is crucial to Senator McCarthy's amendment.