City Bin Service
Statement from Cllr Mary Fitzpatrick, Fianna Fail Group Leader, Dublin City Council The City Manager today confirmed that the private Company Greyhound will over the coming days issue bills to approximately 140,000 homes in Dublin City for bin collection services provided in the fourth quarter of 2011 and demand immediate payment. Homeowners in Dublin City […]
Greyhound
Reminder to customers of Greyhound Kerbside Waste Collection Dublin City Council labels for black/general waste bags are not valid for Greyhound collections after March 16th (except for waiver customers whose labels will be honoured until 31st December, 2012). Black/general waste bags require a Greyhound sticker after that date. A refund for unused Dublin City Council […]
Greyhound & Data Protection Commission
The Data Protection Commission has issued a report on the Transfer of Personal Data from Dublin City Council to Greyhound. While the Data Protection Commission finds that DCC did not breach the Data Protection Acts they do go on to find that DCC did not fully meet the “fair processing” requirements of the Data Protection […]
Dublin City Waste
Here is the text of my statement requesting direct Ministerial action to resolve Dublin City waste collection fiasco: Fianna Fáil Group Leader on Dublin City Council, Councillor Mary Fitzpatrick has called on the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government Phil Hogan to immediately intervene in the dispute over waste collection in Dublin City. Councillor […]
Water Meters in Dublin
On Monday night, at the February meeting of Dublin City Council, my motion “The elected members of Dublin City Council call on the Government to confirm that there will be a free basic allowance and full roll-out of domestic water meters before water charges, in any form, are introduced” was passed and adopted by Dublin […]
Missed Bin Collections
Last week there was a problem with the collection of some brown bins in the city. Greyhound have advised that all brown bins missed last week on small truck Routes will be collected this week. They will be collected on the same day as the green bin collection i.e. if the brown bin was missed […]
Greyhound Bins
At a special meeting of the City Council I put forward eight emergency motions dealing with the Greyhound deal and following is what was agreed: 1. Homeowners in the city must be provided with at least the same level of waste collection service that they had previously received from DCC or real choice of more […]
Labour & The City Manager
Labour in chahoots with City Manager to privatise bin collections. Dublin City Manager has held secret meetings with Labour City Councillors regarding the privatisation of domestic bin collections in the city. Despite a request from Fianna Fail and Independent Councillors for a special meeting on this issue we were neither invited nor informed to meet the City Manager. How […]
Bins – Special Meeting Request
In light of the serious issues that have arisen with DCC’s withdrawal from the collection of domestic waste in Dublin City, last night with the support of the FF councillors and a number of Independent Councillors I formally requested the Lord Mayor to immediately convene a meeting with the CEO of Greyhound and the City […]
Domestic Bin Collections
From Monday January 16th 2012, after more 140 years, Dublin City Council will no longer be responsible for collecting domestic rubbish in the city. Over the past few months I strenuously opposed DCC’s withdrawal from the domestic bin collection service but unfortunately the majority Labour/Fine Geal Councillors supported the City Manager’s plan. I again raised […]