Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein)
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655. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the cost to his Department to apply a waiver scheme for household waste collection to those households in categories (details supplied), in tabular form. [32992/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The specific cost estimates sought by the Deputy are not held by my Department.

An annual support of €75 will be introduced for persons with lifelong or long-term medical incontinence. This will help people meet the average annual cost of disposal of incontinence products. The details and arrangements of this support will be finalised later this year, after further consultation with the stakeholder groups. In addition, I am establishing a pricing monitoring function that will provide monthly reports on pricing developments and I am also asking the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to report on the operation of the household waste collection market in order to inform the future development of national waste management policy before year end.