Debt collector to chase 7,000 who haven’t paid bin charges

Cork County Council has appointed a debt collection agency to chase down nearly 7,000 people who owe €1.8m in unpaid refuse collection bills.

The money is still owed to the council, which disposed of its refuse collection service to a private company in Sept 2012.

Debt collection agency Stubbs Gazette this week began sending out demands to householders on a list of defaulters supplied to it by the local authority.