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LEGISLATION IS NEEDED to penalise landlords whose behaviour encourages their tenants to dump rubbish illegally, a Dublin councillor has said.
Christy Burke, a councillor for Dublin’s north inner city area, was speaking as the council ramped up its efforts to curb illegal dumping in the city centre.
He warned people dumping rubbish illegally:
Dublin City Council is coming after you – so watch out.
He said that he agrees with Dublin City Council when it comes to CCTV, as “anyone illegally dumping will automatically cover their face”. It is understood the council is not planning to add more CCTV cameras under its 2o14 plan.
Disgusting
He said that in parts of the north inner city area, it is “disgusting” what council staff have to deal with when removing rubbish.
“I have jumped out of the car stopping people dumping bags,” said Burke.
He indicated that part of the problem is multi-tenant units.
“The problem is that until we get the legislation that landlords will be penalised if they don’t have [an] adequate proper dumping area, and if they don’t produce evidence of receipts… we need that legislation,” he said.
New bye laws allow council staff to call to houses and ask tenants if they can prove what company is collecting their rubbish.
This initiative was rolled out in January and Burke said that the council staff are calling to both private and city council tenants.
“I’d like to see a name and shame,” said Burke. “I’d like to see enforcement so stringent that there is an approach, infringement and name and shame.”
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Stop making excuses for these criminals. Never understood people who shít in their own backyard. Keep Ireland beautiful. Regards, Hyeon.
Those caught illegally dumping should be fined €3000 then made clean the streets, lanes, walks, parks around their area every second weekend for a year wearing a big pink high vis vest saying “LITTER BUG” on the back.
Conor, that is genius.
So conor wat happens wen they say I dont hav €3000 and I never will.and refuse to do manual labour in their pink hi-vis because they hav a bad leg?and lets be honest thats wat would happen everytime.cushy system
Take the fines out of their wages or dole/benefits until paid (like the property tax) and if they don’t do the pink hi viz street sweeping, keep taking money until they do. Simples!!
They could easily take €3.65 off all householders either through wages or social welfare deductions ….
take it off their dole and when they start working take it off their wages easy!!!!
Landlords whose behaviour encourages their tenants to dump illegally???? The only way that landlords are to blame is allowing freeloaders to rent their property. These kinda people will do it regardless
People who must have being raised by wolves, are constantly dumping bags of rubbish in the park near where I live.These freeloaders would rather pollute the neighbourhood then pay a bin charge.
Murph. All landlords should provide refuse services for their tentants, no one should be allowed rent a property without having this in place.
What about personal responsibility and pride in your home? These people are adults and need to learn to do things for themselves.
Would it be worth also addressing why people are dumping?
Much too sensible talk from you Damocles. Be gone now or DCC will be after you
Because they are too tight to pay the charges
But still have enough money to sit in the pub and on the sofa with their cans…
There is no excuse for dumping.
None.
End of.
There is no excuse.
I didn’t suggest there was an excuse. It would be simple minded to suggest that I had.
And yet people dump.
What is more effort, buying tag and putting out your rubbish or furtively driving out somewhere to dump? So why?
If it’s cost why do bin companies charge more than people are willing to pay? Lower charges, more customers, greater profits. So why?
Take cubist art sheep, or dumped fridges. It’s easier to drive out to the depths of County Wicklow and dump it than to take it to Ballyogan? Why?
This isn’t left wefty, touchy feely, namby pamby excuse making. This just seems a really stupid situation that might be fixed by the application of common sense.
They’re not poor people dumping – they don’t generally dump cans of beans and tinned meats ..
They are dumping high end food packaging, electronic packaging , new conservatory building waste.
Their waste suggests money spent.
They are just greedy undesirables
€12.50 is not too bad…. Plus, the council levy a charge per tonne of wasteso it can only be so cheap.
Some people are just sc*mbags.
I walk from phibsboro to Eccles street each morning and there is always a guy from DCC cleaning up. But come the evening when I am on my way back there is lots bags, cans, bottles etc just dumped. I worked on Berkley Road for a while and there was a lane behind me which could me really bad (including syringes) and even had bins dumped there with addresses from outside the area. To be fair to DCC if you called them they would come within an hour and clean everything.
Bad and all as the rubbish is my bugbear is the dog dirt, you have to walk with your eyes on the pavement or your shoes would be completely ruined. I agree with deducting from peoples wages or SW payments.
The level of dog fouling is ridiculous.
Bin charges should be included in your council tax. No more dumping, problem solved. Cleaner Country.
LPT does not apply to local authority residents.
Not every household is living in local authority housing. Those that are the rent they pay could be increased to cover the payments for bin charges.
The problem is not facilities, the problem is the soap-dodgers who refuse to pay for the facilities and think it acceptable to spew their crap all over the streets or in my case the Poodle river backing onto my house. It’s like a scene they use to highlight the horrific conditions kids live in in the slums.
The problem is is that you wouldn’t confront one of these guys. I’ve seen them openly do it without a care in the world. I value my teeth too much to approach them.
Rented properties are a blight on far too many suburban estates. Legislation is need to address a lot more than “behavior that encourages dumping.”
Should have taken note of the reg number & sent an e-mail to the county council litter warden – they’re surprisingly eager to confront people who do that.
True Matt. My area has gone from mid range desirable to antisocial kip in the space of a few years. Landlords with multiple properties on state sponsored funding accept the dregs of society and their feral litter of sprogs. These people are all Irish btw lest someone thinks I’m having a go. All don’t work and have cars. Standard sprog equipment includes scrambler bikes, quads, horses, iphones plus the obligatory Nikes.
Am I mad or are they????
Remember when you didn’t have to pay for your rubbish? That was cool.
Slight correction on this:
“Christy Burke, a Sinn Féin councillor for Dublin’s north inner city area…”
Christy was elected as a Sinn Féin councillor in 2009, but he left the party not long afterwards and he is now an independent councillor.
This will be as shambolic as the TV licence. DCC will call to the door, the tenants will give a fake name and basically ignore any post that comes in the name of that person. And for the ones who do give a real name and are prosecuted (like the TV licence), will many of them pay their fines and then start paying for their waste disposal regularly? Until such times as fines are deducted from salary or SW payments, this type of behaviour will continue. And DCC need to be entitled to somehow ascertain the tenants name via utility bills. Then you can give as many false names as you like, but the person paying the bills will also pay any fines.
“Landlords need to make provisions for tenants when dumping”?? A Journalist error or is the counsellor trying to promote dumping?
Looks like it.
Also…. Marry me.
Ms. Sue is quite fetching, and in my experience, and much more cogently, the epitome of charm, however, I would counsel you to exercise caution, sir.
I made similar flattering remarks regarding Ms. Rebekah Brooks and the way she might look at me, which, although in quite good taste, were summarily removed some hours later, as were some good natured conversations surrounding my quite understandable interest in that lady, elegant copper haired siren that she is.
It seems we are not allowed to compliment each other for fear that some meddling third party will consider such niceties sexist and report us to the authorities.
Sorry Jeremy….. I’m already married!
I do hope that this belated outbreak of timely enforcement shall be replicated elsewhere within the confines of the jurisdiction of the Republic of Ireland.
Fly tippers should, upon swift conviction, be sentenced to one hour of communal street cleaning for each separate items discovered within the bags of detritus they expect others to deal with.
To wit, the empty shells produced by means of the consumption of one”slab” of a well known Danish beer, should result in the loss of one’s liberty to sit about watching At The Races, for a period of 24 hours.
Alas, Carlsberg do not do punishments, but if they did…
Maybe christy should take their picture instead of stopping them ,then the council can charge these people …..
People on the northside (where im from) are dumping and burning their rubbish under or beside big expensive cctv systems on a huge 360° mass to view everything. I would love to be able to post a picture and show you, its a joke. At least 60+ burnt rubbish bags under one of these cameras. The estate in question has at least 10 of these cameras and you cannot walk 10 feet without crossing heaps of rubbish. Point being the council wont do $hit about dumping and the dirt that dump it.
The cost of waste disposal is huge so you cant blame thoese who cant afford it. So much for privatisation another classic case of it doesnt work.
€12.50 per month.
Astronomical alright.
They could not track a elephant in snow and they care less .
But Dublin is a dump anyway – a non-story if ever there was one.
Only women tandem skydive.
Dublin 8 is a total mess ,dumped bags ,broken bottles ,dog shit everywhere , my workplace has no road sweepers in the last 5 years, James st is Dublins busiest street for tourists visiting the brewery …….. I am embarrassed for them, there is a wet house for the alcos ( drunks) who wander around drinking out of cans & bottles. Dublin is a total sh1t & I was born here.
Only women dressed up as a man would call themselves “jeremy”.
Shall we continue the petulant insults or just acknowledge that I’m correct as usual and move on?
Seriously…. Didn’t have the grapes to jump solo?
Was the comfort of a larger man strapped to you ass what got you through?
Both of us can make sweeping generalisations.
I’ve been listening to shite talk from the council for years now about going after litter louts and when push comes to shove, nothing happens. The council is badly run and the existing litter bye laws were never properly enforced. What’s different this time? Oh yes…they have less money…or at least that’s what they always claim. I would love to see some action on litter louts, but I have no confidence in the council.
Talk about blaming the wrong people…
Sinn Féin really can’t take responsibility for anything.
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