Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a company (details supplied) is demanding that customers pay upfront for collection of wheelie bins tagged with electronic tags, despite not having made available to customers or the public the fee structure pertaining to the collection of electronically tagged bins, and whether such a demand is legal. [7990/16]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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144. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that a company (details supplied) gave sufficient advance notice to customers that bins tagged with paper tags would no longer be lifted after a certain date and that only bins whose electronic tags had been topped up to a minimum of €25 would be collected. [7991/16]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 143 and 144 together.

The charges applied by waste management companies are a matter between those companies and their customers, subject to compliance with all applicable environmental and other relevant legislation, including contract and consumer legislation.