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Has anyone had there bins weighed this morning or does anyone know when this is coming in to effect.
That's not my understanding at all at all. You are still being asked to pay an upfront charge on your account, similar to the amount you paid last year, but the charges against your account are[broken link removed] (well actually a complex combination of €80 flat fee p.a. plus €4 per bin lift plus 20c per kilo of waste issued.DLR has come up with the clever idea of ignoring the whole pay by weight thing, charging an assumed amount equal (I'm pretty sure) to last years fixed charge and then saying they will adjust *next* year.
why shouldn't the charges vary too? Do you expect parking fees, library fees, swimming pool fees and all other local authority items to be the same right across the country too?
Or they might be less cost effective. Less effective councils would have no incentive to keep their costs low. What's the bets that the national costs would be set at the level of the highest existing local authority?such services might be more cost effective if we started looking at things on a national basis
National policy is set by the Dept of Environment.Anything that has such far reaching consequences should be in the hands of our national government setting a national policy.
That's not the policy. That is the execution of the policy. The policy is set by the Dept - the local tactics to execute that policy are set locally.who collects what, when they do it and how much it is to cost