A total of 62 dumping fines have been issued by Roscommon County Council in the past 12 months. Of those, 39 were paid to the local authority, 13 were cancelled, 5 are before the courts and 5 are being reviewed. The figures were revealed at this month's meeting following a question by Cllr Tom Crosby. The twelve-month period relates to July 1st 2024 to June 30th of this year. The Council says it received an income of €9,526 from dumping fines in that time. €5,850 of this was paid within the time period, €2,626 was received from the courts service, while €1,050 came from fines issued prior to the period in question.
The local authority also revealed that waste management costs in relation to littering and illegal dumping ran to over €65,360 during the 12-month time period. This included over 18-thousand euro to combat illegal dumping in the three Municipal Districts of Roscommon, Boyle and Athlone. The annual Clean-Up week cost the council over 5-thousand four-hundred euro while the clearing of illegal dump sites resulted in an expense of over one-thousand one hundred euro. Legal expenses set the Council back over two-thousand five hundred euro. While an anti-dumping initiative, which was funded by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications cost almost 38-thousand euro.
