"This outrageous plan has nothing to do with waste management and would simply be another form of tax collection by the government.Householders in Gorey and throughout the county are already strangled by excessive bin charges.

Once again the government plans to make the householder and not the polluter pay. The last government and its predecessors failed miserably to manage our massive waste problem. They have presided over the lowest levels of waste reduction and recycling in Europe.

"This government and its predecessors have failed to put in place a national strategy aimed at reducing the output of waste by manufacturers, the packaging and retail industries and the construction industry. They have failed to create an infrastructure to recycle the maximum possible volume of waste. Instead they stood idly by last month while the State's only glass recycling plant - the Irish Glass Bottle company in Ringsend, Dublin - was closed with the loss of hundreds of jobs.

Fleming ,who exposed an illegal dumping ground close to Gorey's Community School earlier this summer added :

"Rather than target the producers of waste the government has based its waste management policy on a network of incinerators which will need a constant stream of refuse to operate. And now it plans to penalise even further the householders who find themselves at the end of the waste chain, having to dispose of waste they did not create.

Little wonder then that we are seeing illegal dumps mushrooming in this county such as the one at the back of Esmonde Street recently.There is ferocious anger in the Gorey area and indeed throughout the county that many are already paying 5 Euro for the collection of one small bag of rubbish. Minister Cullen's plan must and will be resisted."