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 Thursday January 30, 2003 16:49 by Flanagan - Labour Party head_office at labour dot ie Ely Place, Dublin 2 67484700
 Labour's spokesperson on Environment, Eamon Gilmore predicts that The Protection of the Environment Bill, published today, will empower County Managers to impose increased refuse charges of €600 per household. NEW BILL MAY INCREASE REFUSE CHARGES TO €600 PER HOUSEHOLD claims Eamon Gilmore The Protection of the Environment Bill, published today, will empower County Managers to impose increased refuse charges of €600 per household. The Bill proposes to transfer to City and County Managers the ‘power to make charges for waste services’. Up to now, this power belonged to the elected At the Dail Environment Committee today, I questioned the Minister in detail about the Bill. The Minister stated that the Bill was based on the ‘polluter pays principle’. He bemoaned the fact that the local authorities wre not charging the full cost of collection and he revealed that the average household cost per collection is €11. This means that a household whose refuse is collected once per week will face an annual charge of €11 x 52, which equals €572. In addition, they will have to pay the cost of the Green Bin collection, where this is available, bringing the total average cost per household to between €600 and €700 per year. By giving the power to make the charges to City and County Managers, the Minister is avoiding the political resistance that would result if the power were left to elected Councils. By further introducing a measure which will make it legal for Local Authorities to refuse collections to households which have not paid, Minister Cullen is introducing a compulsory bin tax which will cost the average household €600 per year. The Labour Party will oppose this new compulsory bin tax. We are opposed to back door taxation. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Is it my imagination but have the greens, labour, and SF press office suddenly found out about the newswire?
Jesus every second post appears to be a press release from these ejiits.
This is a NEWS wire, Not a handy tool for lazy fucking press officers.
This really is funny as can be. I may be only a country yokel who gets darn confussed by all these high falutin government things. But the same darn Labour party which posted this also increased Bin/ Refuse charges in Dublin and Cork. And now we simple folk are supposed to believe they are anti- double taxation
Is this the same "labour" Party that REFUSES to expell that Judas Lacey!
Labour will probably huff and puff a bit in the Dail when Cullen's bill is debated as they usually do.
But will they support and build the mass non-payment campaign? (the ONLY way the bin tax can be beaten). Will they call for mass civil resistance to non- collection? They will like hell.
Save your vote-mongering press releases and let the anti-bin charges campaigns get on with fighting the double tax.
Yeah kiddos ease off a bit. You dont have to post EVERY press release here.
Lets not make a habit of it Pat, okay?
Seriously though, editors n all can we not see a moritorum or summit on this nonsense?
How the hell can the "Labour Party" be opposed to Cullen's bill when they have consistently supported service charges all over the country, including the area where I live? Is it any wonder that so many working class people no longer bother to vote.
But a flat charge is NOT "polluter pays". It means that households which are careful to produce as little trash as possible pay just as much as the most careless.
greens policy on bin taxes is useless. polluter pays me bollix. its an unjust tax on ordianry people. i recycle as much as i can, but at the end of the day i still gotta pay me bin charges (i live in the country where the bin tax campaign is not organised...yet). but even as far as recycling goes, as it stands i gotta get a lift the three miles to me local bottle bank - cos im sure as hell not carrying all those bottles there on me bike. does this cancel out the recycling effect? at the end of the day, the greens despite their rhetoric offer no real solution to the environmental crisis that the world faces - just look at thier 'comrades' in germany for example. as i said, useless.
Service Charges (bin tax, water charges, et al) were first introduced by Labour Party member and then Environment Minister Dick Spring in 1983 (FACT)
The Labour Party actively supported these charges around the country. Nowadays they vote "pragmatically" on the issue.
Bin Charges were introduced in Dublin just over two years ago with the support of three Labour Party councillors (Eamon O'Brien, Anthony Creevy and Sean Kenny). The Labour Party announced that the 3 had been expelled.... (NOT TRUE). Two are back in Labour (O'Brien and Kenny). Creevy joined Fianna Fail (same difference).
Labour's Lord Mayor Dermot Lacey VOTED FOR bin charges this year and used his casting vote as Mayor to impose them on the citizens of Dublin.
Cork Labour Party Lord Mayor John Kelleher (who was elected an Alderman in 1991 during a massive anti charges campaign) voted FOR bin charges this year. His Labour colleague Kathleen Lynch "pragmatically" voted against as did other labour councillors. (Good old John took the heat off them, just like Dermot in Dublin).
The Labour Party is a fraud on this and most other issues (including the present war which they've just discovered).
Pat Rabbitte got £5,000 off rezoning briber Frank Dunlop. A previous cheque for £2,000 was returned (after he took a week to think about it) but the £5,000 was spent by Mr. Rabbitt.
These people are CROOKS.
I am not suprised rabbit took the money, he is a lying hypocrite, his family background is fine geal and he has a strong loyalty to going into coalition with them once again, he likes to dress it up as him being opposed to ff corruption. Hehad no problem serving in the same government as Lowry at the same time that lowry was upto no good with telecom.