Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 476: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if, in the context of his speech to Dáil Éireann on 15 February 2005 (details supplied), he will specify the detail of the limited exceptions he referred to and details of the existing provisions that were used in this case and could be used in other cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11867/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As I advised the House, local authorities are empowered to make waiver schemes where they are directly providing a waste collection service or to make appropriate arrangements with a private service provider where they are not. Generally speaking, waiver schemes have not been applied in respect of privately provided services.

My Department has no function in the making of waiver schemes or similar arrangements. However, from the information available to my Department, I understood that Limerick City Council, Monaghan County Council and Bray Town Council operate, or are in the process of procuring, a waiver mechanism in respect of certain households in their functional areas where a private waste collector is providing a service.