If the councillors have no power, what’s the point of having them?

Yes the changeover should have been done more carefully and planned.Until that was sorted they should have left things as they are.There must be some red faces in the council.

Well if they cannot sort it out now they will have a huge problem and very quickly the invasion will cost a huge sum to sort….. RATS RATS AND MORE RATS
Disgraceful way to conduct business

The issue is not the charge, but people not being informed of the change over process. Myself and most people in my area have received no information from greyhound or Dublin city council. Only a few have received a request for payment and every week since the changeover about half the tagged bags are being left on the street. Greyhound are clearly not doing what they say they are, and yet want payment up front. Not good enough.

I am actually sick of contacting both Greyhound and DCC about this issue. I have not recieved any response from Greyhound about as to why there are bins being left on my street for over 3 weeks now. I have sent 3 emails and rang on numerous occasions only to be told that someone will contact me, Im still waiting. I just rang DCC to make a complaint about the state of the streets, they now have to send a litter warden out to clean up the mess that Greyhound have left behind. The city is turning into a landfill.

Put bin tags on your rubbish and dump it outside the DCC the Dàil or Greyhounds main office. You have paid your charges now let them sort it out if they want.

I blame Thatcher, down with privatisation

We’re not refusing to pay, we CAN’T pay – they haven’t sent us our payment cards!

Sure just pay the service charge if you want them collected lads….I’m joking, I’m joking! ;) The whole situation is God awful but I’ve nearly wet myself laughing reading through the comments (particularly those who have clearly missed the point!)

Its a loadbof rubbish really

It’s only free for recycling the cost of bin tags are 3.50 each it used to be free for elderly people. The cost of 1 bag of rubbish per week per year 182 euro. This is for houses that don’t have the room for wheelie bins, which are the ones that are not paying the 50 euro sign up charge.

It didn’t stop DCC purchasing brand spanking new rubbish collection vans.

Of course it’s a shambles. If FG get their way and privatise everything else that will be a shambles too. Don’t allow them sell everything from under us.

can someone explain who exactly it is that the Lord Mayor is criticising here?? if he’s the Lord Mayor does he not have a role??
sick and tired of these people in roles of responsibility turning around and announcing that something is unacceptable!! we’re the ones saying that! you’re the one who’s supposed to fix it!

Load of rubbish lol,typo…

Why should Dublin have free bin collection when here in my home town we pay for this service and have done so for a number of years and it’s a lot more than €100 euro. So if they don’t want to pay let them rot in their own filth.

Every time we see a “shambles” in and around Dublin be it flooding, non inspection and signing off of dangerous apartments, bad preparation for well forecasted snowfall and now the latest fiasco with the privatisation of the garbage collections the ‘DUBLIN CITY MANAGER’ features large in it. who is this person, is it just me or is there a clear pattern of incompetence here? Shambles after shambles, the phrase ‘out of their depth’ springs to mind surely someone needs to ask wether this person is up to the job and if they are not, then FIRE THEM!

If the cost is not the issue then pay the €100 the rubbish is not being collected because the service charge has not been paid.

Is this service charge new? Most other providers including county councils have a service charge and collect the recycle bin for this charge “free”

Saying this the changeover has been a shambles. Kildare coco recently changed their provider and it went smoothly rubbish is collected on the same day. Same bins are used and the new provider AES has put their stickers on them. Also those with a waiver have that for the next two years

Once again the Dubs are giving out about paying for their bins. They were at it about 5yrs ago and they’re at again now. At the moment I’m paying nearly €300 for bin collection, they’re still getting it cheaper than a lot of people in the country.

Its actually laughable! 6 million debt was rung up by people in Dublin not paying the council so it seems ye dubs do have a problem paying! Ye expect everything to be handed to ye on a plate cause your the capita. I don’t care if it’s the capital I don’t live there! People in dingle don’t have rubbish charges paid for them because tourists visit the town! Pay up!!