Seanad debates
Thursday, 3 July 2003
Protection of the Environment Bill 2003 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] : Report and Final Stages.
Several other amendments require detailed explanation, including those dealing with the right of local authorities not to collect household waste. Will the Minister of State indicate who will make people comply with waste collection charges? Senator O'Meara, the Minister of State and I travel to this House from counties Tipperary, Donegal and Longford respectively and we see the way in which fields, pavements, roadsides and ditches are littered owing to indiscriminate dumping from cars and so on. When will this problem be addressed? It is the most often discussed issue among foreign visitors. Indiscriminate dumping in the countryside gives them a very bad impression. It will only increase if local authorities are not obliged to collect refuse.
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