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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL tenants who don’t respond to letters asking them how they dispose of their rubbish could find action being taken against them.
The council announced in April that it would be writing to its own council tenants to ask them to inform them who they have a waste disposal contract with. This was described as a “proactive way of trying to highlight the issue” of illegal dumping, according to Brendan Hayden, Assistant Area Manager for the central area for Dublin City Council (DCC).
He said that to date they have sent out letters to two quadrants, and have sent a reminder letter to one quadrant, with a reminder to be sent out to the second quadrant soon.
Hayden said that so far they have seen a 50 per cent response rate to the letters, indicating that people are buying tags or they have a contract with a waste collection operator.
That is “somewhat low as far as we are concerned”, said Hayden, adding that the council will be following up with other tenants who have not responded to the letters.
We would take the view that if they had not responded they would have [been] illegally disposing of their waste.
Action could be taken with regard to tenancy agreements, said Hayden.
Bins vs bags
The North Inner City Litter Action Group (NICLAG), of which Hayden is a member, is concerned at the number of council houses where people are using tags and bags to dispose of rubbish, rather than bins.
They believe it would be easier and cheaper for people to use bins where they have the space for the bins in their residences.
“We would say that the use of bins as against bags would turn out to be cheaper,” said Hayden, adding that the issue could be dealt with by the council’s housing department.
NICLAG has raised that issue with the council’s housing department as something they would like to see happening, “as waste collectors themselves would like to deal with bins as opposed to bags”.
If people aren’t prepared to pay for bins, Hayden said the council could pay for them but offset the charge against it using rent paid by the tenant. The council would pay the waste collector for the bins but the tenant would use their rent payments to pay back the money used.
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Its ok, Denzel Washington comes good in the end and owns up.
“In his verdict, the judge highlighted the co-pilot’s high level of intoxication, the number of people whose lives would have been endangered if he had flown the plane, the length of the flight, and the fact that he must have known that his colleagues had also been drinking”
Then he sentenced him to 6 months in jail?
It’s Norway, They gave Anders Breivik 20 years and a 5 stars room with internet connection and a Playstation
Six months is a disgrace
You’d wonder how common this is,only for the tip off no one would’ve ever known
Must of been an irish judge with such a ridiculous sentence
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Surely the two bottles were shared amongst all of them? Otherwise 2 bottles on his own would put him waaaaay over than 7 times the legal limit for airline staff.
I would have thought two bottles of whiskey would be a fatal dose.
Maybe they were miniatures.
He was *seven* times the limit – and it was *the next day*!! You think a couple of miniatures would do that?!
The legal limit for airline staff is lower than the statutory one (if I remember correctly) so a couple of mini bottles could have done that.
probably thought he was going to get the ride off those other two.
Well here he would have got a twelve month ban, but you can have you licence back in six. Sure isn’t it the same as having a few pints down the local and driving home!.
Only if you can fit 100 people in your car and your car can travel at 500mph through the air….
Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
Very good padraig, that made me laugh on a crappy tues afternoon
Is there a Norwegian version of SIPTU to appeal this ridiculously harsh decision?
Sure planes these days practically fly themselves. Whats the problem ?
Reminds me of a joke …
3 Padraigs, one English, one Scot and one Irish, all were at AA. Padraig from England says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 4 shorts with breakfast, another 4 for elevenses, go for a few beers at lunch, I have a hip flask that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have a few more beers with me dinner. Then the wife and myself drink a few bottles of wine in front of the telly and then I’ll have half a bottle of whiskey for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink twice that”.
Padraig from Scotland stands up and says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 6 shorts with breakfast, another 8 for elevenses, go for 6 beers at lunch, I have two hip flasks that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have another 6 beers with me dinner. Then the girlfriend myself drink probably 4 bottles of wine between us in the evening and then I’ll have a naggin of vodka for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink three times that”.
Padraig from Ireland stands up and says, “sure these two boys can’t drink at all..”
There is a legal limit for pilots?
There is. It’s very low (lower than the limit for drivers) but it exists.
The Pilot probably just bottled it!
So you’re saying there are drunk Latvian stewardesses on airBaltic flights? Giggity!
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