The Chief Executive of Belfast City Council has made an apology to the public and councillors over the local authority’s highly criticised bin collections during the Christmas period.
At the council’s recent meeting of its Strategic Policy and Resources Committee, Chief Executive John Walsh made the public statement in the face of a wave of anger after failures over Christmas led to a fifth of residential waste not being collected by the local authority. The failure came after the city council glass collection was suspended for months earlier in the year through the summer into autumn.
Mr Walsh, who was appointed to the top job last March, told the committee: “As Chief Executive I think it is important I issue a public apology, and an apology to all of you, in terms of what has occurred with the bin collection over the Christmas period. Obviously those standards did not meet what the public and our citizens are entitled to and what they expect of us.
