Martin Hart

So look, they're not suitable.

We have to change.

Everything changes.

Cities change.

Life in cities changes.

Uh, you know, you can't on one hand be constantly bemoaning the city and its cleanliness.

particularly every summer.

I mean, it's the thing that we, you know, the tune starts around May or June each year and runs for a couple of months.

And without doing this, it's hugely, hugely important.

No, but I think a seagull is going to have less luck with a bin than it is with a piece of thin plastic.

So, you know, I'm sure bins blow over, they fall down, things happen.

I get that.

But I think overall, if you're trying to manage a city and you're trying to keep it clean, you have to get rid of these bags.

They have to go.

And as I say, you know, Temple Bar over the last, since COVID, you know, there was a huge

people started putting bags back out on the street it was a massive problem we we spent a lot of time with the council in trying to deal with this and uh you know they created the ban the ban has vastly improved the city so look you can't make an ambulance without cracking eggs as they say and of course there are going to be issues for people but look i remember uh back in the 90s uh now maybe people can't remember that far back in dublin city when i started in temple bar

There were a hundred, and in the city centre in general, there were hundreds and hundreds of these big Euro bins.

I don't know if you remember them.

They're like the giant skips that you'd see in, you know, in American back lanes.

And they covered the streets of the capital.