Dublin City Council Allocates Extra Resources To Help Clean Streets

Dublin City Council has allocated extra resources to help clean streets and collect litter in areas of high footfall in the city-centre commercial district.

There are 11 street washing vehicles in operation in the city on a weekly basis and the City Council intends to add a further three vehicles and wash crews over the coming weeks. Additional staff will also be rostered in the coming days.

Dublin City Council said it will continue to monitor the effectiveness of its waste management service and will assign extra resources to target specific areas.


At present the City Council's Waste Management Services section has over 500 operational staff, servicing approximately 3,400 litter bins. They also provide a robust street cleaning service to the city, particularly to the city centre commercial district area:

• Over 100 staff are rotated between 3 shifts 24 hours a day Sunday to Friday, and from 5am to 9pm on a Saturday

• All litter bins are serviced several times each day

• All pavements are mechanically serviced by mechanical sweepers

• Manual sweeping also takes place by staff on hand carts

• Street washing is provided by the night shift 5 nights per week (Sunday to Thursday)

• Priority pedestrianised streets such as Grafton St, O’Connell St and Henry St are deep-cleaned with a buffer machine

• Additional supplementary cleansing is provided by a third party contractor 7 days a week and financial resources have been allocated to continue this service so that the city pavements can be cleaned in these high footfall areas as quickly as possible

• Recently two further street washing crews were added to the day time shift work (6am-2pm).