Seanad debates

Tuesday, 1 April 2003

Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.

 

This deals with the waivers. Section 35(3) of the Bill allows the local authority, if it is satisfied it is appropriate on the grounds of personal hardship, to waive all or a portion of a charge made by it. That is fine where the local authority is the waste collection agency, but there might not be a power of waiver if collection has been tendered out to a private contractor. There are increasing numbers of hardship cases where people cannot afford to maintain a wheeled bin or pay the costs of waste collection because of the escalating costs of collection and landfill. There is a relationship between that and illegal dumping.

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