GALWAY CITY HAS COUNTRY'S POOREST RECORD OF LITTER PROSECUTIONS

Date Published: 21-Sep-2008

Galway city has the poorest record of littering and pollution prosecutions in the country.Just over fifteen hundred cases of environmental pollution were investigated by Galway city council last year but only three resulted in enforcement procedures being taken. Galway's three litter prosecutions compare to just over a thousand enforcement procedures being taken by Cork city council for a similar number of investigations to Galway.According to the Sunday Times officials in Cork city also have the most stringent record in pursuing people who fail to pay their litter fines, securing 88 prosecutions out of 88 cases.