The new Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has claimed that the recent bin charges fiasco has left the Government with no choice but to allow private waste operators to take over from local councils.
Mr Donohoe who was speaking in the wake of the recent decision to charge homeowners by a pay by weight system instead of a flate rate system also claimed that citizens a only have themselves to blame it they are charged exuberant prices by companies because they did nothing but moan about the current system.
Speaking to reporters yesterday Mr Donohoe said that the people complaining about the new regime seriously need to look at the circumstances that led to it.
Mr Donohoe said: “The same people made it impossible for local authorities to be able to afford to pick up waste. They opposed local authorities charging rates to allow waste collection to be affordable. That is one of the reasons not a single local authority in the country picks up waste.”
“They are now the same people who are saying the private sector has no role in it either. Well if that’s the case who’s going to pick it up?”