Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce a new household waste management Bill. [2859/15]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary North, Labour)
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My Department is currently considering options for the development of a new regulatory framework to reform the regulation of the collection of household waste. Such options might include measures to require collectors to have a customer charter in place, and to meet certain minimum standards of customer service, such as specified frequencies of collection for different bin types. Consideration of these policy provisions will also determine whether primary and/or secondary legislation will be required to underpin their introduction. It will also be important that the development of the new framework take cognisance of emerging new EU waste proposals. In this context, it is anticipated that the European Commission will publish a revised package of proposals on the circular economy during 2015.