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DtmgaRoan UbRaRj MARIOS MOTOR FACTORS HORNIBROOKS MARY ST., DUNGARVAN Spares for- and SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT COOKERS, KETTLES, FRIDGES TWIN TUBS, AUTOMATICS, Circulating throughout the County and City of Waterford, South Tipperary and South-East Cork FOR VACUUM CLEANERS AND TUMBLE DRYERC TEL. 058/42417, anytime Vo. 50. No. 2565. FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1988. REGISTERED AT THE GENERAL TOYOTA POST OFFICE AS A NEWSPAPER PRICE 25p (inc. VAT) POLLUTION PENSMAN TAKES YOU To Seek Re-instatement Of County CALL FOR EleveTP l./-\ T Tn y-v memberm AmKn«s n ofn f thI-Ve* A for- ^^ mer County Waterford Commit- tee of Agriculture met at a spe- cially convened meeting at, the REALISTIC GRANT ACOT Offices in Dungarvan last Monday morning to make a case Committees Ot Agriculture £10,979,938 dn travelling ex- for the County Waterford T.D.'s AID SCHEME A SIGN OF THE TIMES to seek the re-instatement of At a specially convened meet- penses for staff members and Committees of Agriculture. Fol- At the outset, the former ing of former members of the On Monday last, May 23, the at present being debated in the feeling that there was now a but the problem was to arrive £390.742 for the travelling lowing a decision by the Gov- Chairman of the Committee, Dail. hope of re-establishing the at an acceptable • formula for Co. Waterford Committee of ernment to merge the opera- Minister for Health, Dr. R'ory expenses for the board members Cllr. W. McDonnell said that he Cllr. McDonnell said that, the Committees and It, was put to the establishment of statutory Agriculture held in Dungarvan O'Han Ion, T.D., launched a tions of ACOT and AFT and had called the meeting in an General Council had since all the former Committees to committees On a county basis. last Monday morning, a discus- during the year. that, no further funding be pro- new food and drink hygiene effort to try to re-establish Com- asked C.A.O.'s and former Com- bring whatever pressure they He felt that there was room sion took place on the enormOus The information was given by vided for the Committees by the mittees of Agriculture. He said sums of money which pollution information campaign called mittee's to hold local meetings could to bear on the Minister for compromise if such a form the Minister for Health in reply Exchequer or the Local Author- that the General Council ol to impress on their constituency to do this. He would like to see of words could be agreed. control measures on farms ity, they were disbanded as "Cleanwatch." The aim of the to a question on the matter Committees of Agriculture had T.D.'s the need for them to use the Committees re-established In a written submission read could cost. campaign is to encourage the from December 31, 1987. recently contacted the Minister their powers a Dail Deputies in some form s that farmers asked in the Dail recently. s 0 by the C.A.O., Deputy Deasy Views expressed stated that general public to become more Present at the meeting on in- for Agriculture, Mr. O'Kennedy, to get, a suitable amendment could have some voice in the apologised for his inability to vitation were Deputies Brian to make a case for the estab- included in the Bill for the es- running of the agricultural af- huge sums involved, running in conscious of hygiene standards attend as he was out of the some instances into tens of DISC PARKING NEXT Swift (F.F.) and Martin Cullen lishment, of Statutory Commit- tablishment of these commit- fairs of their own counties. country. He said that he still and to ask them to collaborate tP.D.) while apologies were re- tees on a County basis as part tees. thousands of pounds, could well MONTH believed the Minister might put farmers out of business un- with the managements of all ceived from Deputies Austin Of the Agricultural, Research. Deputy Brian Swift said that agree to the retention Of the Deasy (F.G.) and Jackie Fahey Training and Advice Bill 1988 Mr. Jerry Kingston, C.A.O. as he understood it. his func- less a realistic grant aid scheme food and drink outlets to Dungarvan Town Clerk Mr. Committees but only if consider- was introduced. (F.F.). then read resolutions from the tion at the meeting was to able pressure was brought to improve those standards. Bertie White informed members Co. Mayo and Co. Donegal Com- listen and gather the views ex- The problem, it was stated, bear on him by members of his was a major one which would While, as Minister O'Hanlon of the Urban Council at their mittees of Agriculture passed pressed by those present. He as- own party. last, December calling on the sured the meeting that, he not be solved in a hurry while monthly meeting last Monday pointed out al the launch our Minister to retain the Commit- would communicate these views Finally the members unani- I a sensible and flexible approach standards of food hygiene are night Chat the necessary signs tees on a county basis. to the Fianna Fail Parliamen- mously made a request to all to the problems by the Co. good, we must not become for the operation of disc park- tary Sub-Committee on Agricul- the T.D.'s to do all they could Council's Pollution Officers was STIFLING DEMOCRACY ture and would come back as also required. complacent. A high standard of ing in the town were about to to have the present, legislation soon as hP could with their de- before the Dail altered to en- Cllr. M. Quealy raised an ob- hygiene is fundamental to the All members present voiced be erected. It was expected that their opinions in turn on the cision on the matter. sure the retention of the Com- jection to the ACOT advertise- wellbeing of the individual and the system would commence need for the re-establishment of Deputy Cullen said that the mittees. ment about pollution on the the quality of his environment. about mid-June, he said. Just the committees. The dissolution nub of the problem appeared to In addition to the Chairman, radio which suggested to people be the cost of operating such in urban areas that "farmers On the ofher hand, poor stan- another method by tihe local of the old Committees, it was also present at the meeting stated, was an act to stifle local Committees, He did not think were Cllrs. O Wilkinson. T. Cun- were getting away with murder dards are aesthetically unaccept- authority to collect more democracy and a bad thing for that it was possible even in the ningham. J. Carey J. A. Walsh. for years." The wholp tone of able but, more importantly, can revenue from the already over- agriculture which, it was claim- event of succeeding in having a M. Quealy and M/s. J. O'Grady the advertisement was wrong, he said. be the cause of illness and taxed motorist! ed, was the most important in- suitably worded amendment in- (Sheepbreeders). P. Morrissey disease. dustry in the country. cluded in the Bill that the (Macrai. M. Kiely (IFA). J. Har- Mr. M. Kiely said that while Cllr. McDonnell, in the chair, status quo would be observed rington (ICMSA) and T. Mur- silage effluent was a problem Much of this can go unreport- ITEMS OF INTEREST phy (ICOSi. said that there was a general to be dealt with, by far the big- ed and undetected and "Cle;in- We were sorry to learn from gest problem was the control watoh" is directed at raising the of soiled water which could cost Cllr. Wdllie McDonnell during enormous amounts of money. level of public awareness nbou' the week that no award was DUNGARVAN U.D.C. Deputy M. Cullen (P.D.i said food hygiene. It is to en- won by the Tallow Bride De- that pollution should not be courage people to look for velopment Group for the very seen solely as a problem for the proper standards and to be praiseworthy project which had Department of Agriculture but more confident about making also one which involved fhe De- been entered by tihem in the partments of the Environment known their comments to recent Zanussi National Clean Refuse Collection Notice and Tourism. He felt there management. People tend to get Up Competition. Out of hun- would be a better chance of ob- taining funding to deal with the standards they look for and dreds of entries from all over The confusion created by the the country, the Tallow project the problems if there was a this applies to food hygiene a? publication of a notice in the spread over all three. much as for anything else. had been short-listed to the local papers concerning the col- lection of refuse in the urban Created Contusion On the proposal of Cllr. J. A. When we do have re;ison to final ten for which there were area as from May 30 was dis- Walsh spconded by Mr. J. Har- eight awards available and rington it was then unanimous- criticise standards we usually cussed at length by members ly agreed to request the Minis- hopes were high after the excit- of Dungarvan Urban Council at hour which created traffic prob- The Town Clerk said that tend to do so in private] lems while the crew of the truck they were getting all the ser- ter for Agriculture to bring the ing helicopter visit of the their monthly meeting last vices provided by the Council "rant aid for pollution control amongst ourselves ;ind then to Monday night were also complaining.

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