Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he is taking to ensure waste collection companies do not continue to increase their monthly service charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37452/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I established a Household Waste Collection Price Monitoring Group (PMG) last year to monitor pricing developments for household waste collection services during the phasing out of flat rate fees. The PMG has met each month since September 2017 and has considered eleven months of pricing data trends. The PMG has indicated that, in the vast majority of cases, prices have remained stable. Detailed data on the price offerings for the months of December 2017 through to August 2018 will be available on www.dccae.gov.ie this week.

The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) is also currently conducting a separate study on the operation of the household waste collection market which it will complete in 2018. 

The results from the PMG in conjunction with the study being undertaken by the CCPC will provide an evidence base for future policy decisions in relation to the household waste market.