FREE ACCESS to the county’s main central waste management system will not be given to members of community employment schemes.
An appeal had been issued by Cllr Ann Norton (IND) at the March sitting of the Ennis Municipal District to support members of CE schemes “by giving them free access to the Inagh Dump as most of the grass and rubbish is in council owned estates”. Her motion was seconded by Cllr Clare Colleran Molloy (FF).
Brendan Flynn, a senior executive engineer in the environment section of Clare County Council advised that the civic amenity site at Ballyduffbeg in Inagh “has a green waste compost facility that caters for green waste from all areas of the county. The compost facility is fully compliant with the Irish Compost Association requirements and provides for high quality compost which we use in the Gardening Section and also on certain on-site capital projects.
He continued, “Unfortunately, the facility is at capacity at present and we are not in a position to provide free passes for green waste. Clare County Council will issue community groups, individuals and schools with free passes to Lisdeen and Scariff Transfer Stations and the Central Waste Management Facility at Inagh for various waste streams during National Spring Clean month. It is important that groups register with An Taisce for the spring clean in order to avail of these passes”.
Spring cleans are commencing across the county, Cllr Norton outlined. “The CE schemes do valuable work around Ennis. One of the issues they were having was they were paying to access the compost facilities, I was asked to see whether or not we could get them some passes so they wouldn’t be out of pocket. Unfortunately they don’t have a huge amount of finance, with the fact they are cleaning up and tidying up areas of waste I was hoping that they would be given support by Clare County Council”.
