Written answers

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

Waste Disposal Charges

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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114. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline her views on the fact that persons who pay for a company's (details supplied) bin tags via prepay in a post office pay 30 cent more than customers who pay for tags via automated means by saving a credit or debit card to their account; the proportion of this 30 cent that consists of the post office's merchant commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30153/16]

Photo of Michael RingMichael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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The issue raised by the Deputy is an operational matter for An Post and the commercial provider concerned. My Department has no statutory function in relation to the matter and I have no information in relation to the commercial arrangement in question.

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