John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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374. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to roll out an information awareness campaign to inform persons of plans to ban flat rate bin charges in the future; and if so, when he plans on doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33439/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The Regional Waste Management Planning Offices commenced a programme of education and awareness funded by my  Department in March 2017 with radio advertisements encouraging the use of brown bin and focusing on food waste prevention which ran from throughout March 2017. This was backed up with social media campaigns to further encourage the use of the brown bin.

The Regional Waste Management Planning Offices will continue to roll out waste awareness and education initiatives in the second half of this year, re-focussing on the use of the brown bin, but also concentrating on improving and increasing recycling, waste prevention and the correct use of the kerbside collection system. In terms of the timing of a campaign to inform people about the phase out of flat rate fees, it is intended that this will begin before the end of July 2017.