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Mick Barry
NO To Bin Service Privatisation is the title of two public meetings to be hosted in Glanmire and Blarney by Socialist Party councillor Mick Barry this week.
The first will be held in Glanmire Community Hall tonight (Monday) at 7.30pm and the other will be held in the Muskerry Arms, Blarney, tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8pm.
The meetings come in the wake of Cork County Council’s decision to privatise waste collection services.
LABOUR Party Senator for Cork South-West, Michael McCarthy, has expressed his disappointment at the news that Cork County Council will sell its waste collection service to a private firm.
Senator McCarthy said, “I recently called on Cork County Council to re-think its strategy of privatising this service. I believe that it was a vital service for the community and that its loss will have huge implications for the less well-off in County Cork.
Mick Barry
SOCIALIST Party councillor Mick Barry this morning slammed Cork County Council’s decision to privatise its waste collection service as news breaks of the service being sold to Country Clean Recycling.
Cllr Barry said that the decision to maintain the waiver scheme for two years was a “token sweetener” and that once the two years was up “thousands of low income families in the county area will simply be thrown to the wolves”.
Cllr Barry said, “This rotten deal means that thousands of low income families, people who are unemployed, people who are on disability, old age pensioners whose sole source of income is the state pension are going to be asked to pay hundreds of euro for bin collection where previously the cost was covered by society.
County Hall
CORK County Council this week advised communities from right across County Cork who are wishing to undertake development projects in their area in the coming months that they are set to benefit from €500,000 in funding from Cork County Council’s 2010 Community Grant Scheme.
The scheme was established to support community and voluntary groups who wish to undertake infrastructural projects costing over €60,000 which will improve the range and quality to community based facilities such as community halls, sporting facilities and other such public, social & recreational facilities.
LABOUR Party Senator for Cork South-West, Michael McCarthy, has expressed his concern at the likelihood that Cork County Council is to discontinue its refuse collection service.
Senator McCarthy said, “The loss of this service will have an impact on a massive number of people. Those on social welfare, the elderly, those with disabilities will all now be left to the mercy of the ‘market’.
