Fingal County Council has denied claims by the Fingal anti-bin tax campaign that there is more than 40 truckloads of uncollected household waste in the Fingal area.
Campaigners said today the council's policy of non-collection meant that 7,500 houses in the Blanchardstown/Mulhuddart had not had refuse collected for almost a month and the policy could lead to a health and environmental crisis.
The group added that out of forty truckloads of uncollected waste in the Fingal area, 20 truckloads were concentrated in the Huntstown, Hartstown, Blakestown, Mountainview, Corduff and Ladyswell areas of Blanchardstown and Mulhuddart.
These claims, however, were firmly denied by a spokesperson for Fingal County Council.
She claimed there was only 20 truckloads of uncollected refuse in the Fingal area and that the number of houses in the Blanchardstown/Mulhuddart area that had not had refuse collected was 4,500 and not 7,500 as the Fingal anti-bin tax campaign claimed.
Spokesperson for the Fingal anti-bin tax campaign, Socialist Councillor Ms Ruth Coppinger, said Fingal County Council "partially acknowledged the growing waste crisis last week by opening a waste disposal centre at the Coolmine industrial estate for those willing to pay".
Ms Coppinger called on the council to make the depot available to all free of charge.