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The Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Denis Naughten, T.D., confirms that the 1^st of January 2017 date for the mandatory introduction of ‘dual pricing’ with and an “opt-in” to pay-per-kilogramme charges by waste collectors is being deferred.

The Minister stated that “it does not make sense to require the waste collectors, from the 1st of January, to dual price against, or to offer opt-ins for the old mandatory per-kilogramme pricing proposal”.

The Minister outlined that “the review with industry representatives and regulatory authorities is continuing, which is exploring a more flexible framework of pay-by-weight pricing structures for householders, which will incentivise people to reduce and separate their waste and will enable the collectors to provide more options to help households manage their waste costs”.

Work on the review is continuing and the agreement with industry representatives is still in place so that customers would pay, in the meantime, no more for the same level of service than they were paying for waste collection before last summer.