Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 372: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government when his plans to provide resources for a bin waiver system will be introduced, which is particularly important in south Dublin given its current bin waiver system comes to an end on 31 March 2012. [15343/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce competitive tendering for household waste collection, under which service providers would bid to provide waste collection services in a given area, for a given period of time and to a guaranteed level of service.

A public consultation designed to inform the policy development process concluded in September 2011. A large number of responses were received from a broad spectrum of interests. A consensus is not apparent and, on almost all of the relevant issues, a considerable breadth of opinion was expressed. All of the responses received, in addition to a summary document, are available on my Department's website, www.environ.ie.

I expect to be in a position to submit final proposals in relation to household waste collection to Government by Easter this year. All policy proposals will be carefully considered by Government and will take account of the full range of issues and perspectives. In that context I will be engaging with my Government colleagues on the matter of a waiver scheme, where the issues involved primarily relate to support for low income households.