The Labour Party on Dublin City Council have called on the City Council management to explain why the changeover process to Greyhound Recycling was not managed efficiently.
Cllr Rebecca Moynihan, speaking on behalf of the group says “the whole changeover process to Greyhound has been a disaster. Residents were not informed of the changes in a timely manner, bins were left out on the streets for days and people have been confused about the paying of arrears. The City Council management should have allowed adequate time for a smooth handover, which would have averted the chaos we saw last week”.
“As a result of the changeover Councillors are worried about the effect that the privatisation of the service will have on illegal dumping. We are calling on the government to levy the waste management sector to pay for the additional costs of street cleaning and dumping which will arise from this”.
“While we welcome the provision Greyhound made last week for people to pay the standing charge in two installments, it does not go far enough. The current installment payment is only for customers who sign up to the automatic top up service. Greyhound need to widen this to allow all customers to pay their standing charge in installments”.
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This City Council recognising that waste management is a function of the executive calls on
- The City Manger to provide the City Council at it’s next meeting with a detailed outline of what proposed logistical and communication tasks required throughout the changeover process were in place, what was the timetable for these, who was responsible for the successful execution of each element of the changeover process and where this plan failed
- Asks that the City Manager to outline what data protection advice he had received in relation to transferring the details of arrears owed to Dublin City Council to Greyhound and to detail what agreement has been reached with Greyhound for the collection of these arrears
- Calls for a regulatory framework for all waste providers operating in the City. We further call on central government to levy all licensed waste providers to cover the additional costs of street cleaning and dumping in the City
- That this Council conscious of the financial difficulties being experienced by so many call for a National Waiver scheme to be implemented. We ask that the City Manager enter into further discussions with Greyhound, with a view to permitting residents to submit an application for a waiver to Dublin City Council up to 29th of February and be considered for same, to cover the current year.
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