People just keep on dumping illegally on Tipperary roads causing major problems

The chronic situation regarding illegal dumping was a topic of conversation at the recent Tipperary/Cahir/Cashel Municipal District meeting. A motion was brought before the house “that this Municipal District would provide an update on the number of house calls in this District made under the Household Waste Survey in an effort to reduce illegal dumping”.

Councillor Andy Moloney, who raised the matter, said: “I suppose waste and litter on our country roads is gone beyond a joke.” From Cllr Moloney’s own observations, bags were “heaped up at houses” as he put it. “It is concerning to me that we cant find out how many surveys have been carried out. It could be nothing or it could be a hundred - we don’t rightly know!

“Like, everyone in the department are working towards KPI’s and we will get a list at the end of the year of the KPI’s for each section,” he said, adding that the council weren’t helping themselves.  “There are people out there that are blatantly dumping in the open countryside and I know it says there that if people have a problem they can ring into the council and somebody ‘may go and check it out’.

“I thought when we put this in, that it was going to be random enough that if it did one estate in the district or one single house, or one a year at least, it is a start but where we are looking at bins out on the roadside piled up, it is a red flag.” He went on to say that the recycling centres in Cashel and Clonmel are well kept and are clean but he believes: “the problem is with the fella not going to Cashel or Clonmel to the recycling centre”.

Cllr Burgess agreed with Cllr Moloney that traceability is very important in regards to illegal dumping and said: “I’d query why we couldn’t get a figure, a total number of inspections and a breakdown like that. I’d query it because we have received that in the past.”

Cllr Burgess said to solve the dumping problems more must be done because “there is little traceability” he said, before telling Cllr Moloney: “I’d really query that with the Environment Section.”