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The overflowing dog waste receptacle located near Dun Eala in Fermoy – calls have been made on Cork County Council to take responsibility for emptying them. Photo: Eoin Scanlon

There have been increased calls for Cork County Council to take responsibility of the dog waste receptacles in Fermoy, following recent incidents of the bins overflowing with waste bags.

At present the waste receptacles are managed and maintained by the local Tidy Tows association, and responsibility falls on their members to empty the bins, instead of the council.

Former Fermoy councillor, Olive Corcoran, highlighted the problem around the Dun Eala estate in the town, where two such bins were littered with extra waste bags.

“I go out walking a lot at night-time, I notice none of the bins are collected. There’s bags and bags piled around the bins. I was up on the long road, beside Dun Eala, there’s a bin there and there was about 20 bags of waste dumped on the ground beside it.

“You can’t blame the people, but there should be somebody in the council collecting it. It should be collected,” she told The Avondhu.

NO BUDGET

The receptacles were installed in a number of locations around the town at the request of Fermoy Tidy Towns, on who full responsibility for emptying them falls.

Tidy Towns PRO Tadhg O’Donovan said that ‘a lot of people are of the assumption that it’s the council that are providing them’. Instead Mr O’Donovan and Councillor Noel McCarthy are charged with emptying the bins and dropping them down to the council yard.

“The council wouldn’t put them there, they wouldn’t take responsibility first day, so myself and Noel have to take out the bags and drop them down to the council.

“I asked them a few times and they said they hadn’t included it in last year's budget, unless they’re going to include it in this years, otherwise it will only be myself and Noel. Since they were put up we're the only ones who collect them.

“I did say it at a number of meetings and we met the council, because we believe in every other town it’s the council who take them away, but they didn’t in Fermoy.

“They do in most other towns, I checked it out, I pointed that out to the council myself. All the council could say the last time was there’s no budget for it, but the present situation cannot continue either, where it’s just myself and Noel,” he said.

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