Labour Mayor supports Bin Tax

national | miscellaneous | news report Monday December 30, 2002 15:02 by Activist - Campaign Against Service Charges

At last night's City Council meeting the Council failed to vote for an increase in the bin tax. Labour Mayor Dermot Lacey fully supports the increases in bin tax.

Yesterday the Dublin City Council did not vote for an increase in the bin tax, this is largely due to the campaign of non-payment and the pressure put on the councillors.

The Labour Party Mayor, Dermot Lacey, shamefully stated that bin tax cannot be defeated and the council should vote for it as there is nothing they can do. The Labour Party Mayor is obviously unaware that he should be fighting against Central government cut-backs and he should be supporting the mass non-payment campaign.

Lacey, Labour Party councillor for Pembroke, even expressed reservation on paying the Council workers their paltry benchmarking pay rise. Dermot Lacey is typical of social democrats. When the going gets tough, they get weak. The Labour Councillors do not want to mobilise active opposition to the bin tax and government cut-backs. They just sit-back, well fed, over-paid, and are convinced that they are doing their best by the man on the street.

The Green Party are also playing a shameful role on the bin tax. They are fully supportive of bin charges as they think that polluter should pay. Do they not know that the real polluters are big business! Do the Greens support the privatisation of refuse collection?