Carers shouldn't have to pay new bin charges - councillor

Carers should be exempt from new bin charges coming into force next July, a councillor claimed.

Cllr Ide Cussen said the new regulations in which waste will be weighed and will see an increase in the cost of disposing of household waste.

However the Sinn Fein representative said that carers and people with specified medical conditions should be exempt from the new charges.