Lack Of Progress On Illegal Dumping Surveillance In Clare Branded "Extremely Frustrating"

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A perceived lack of progress on introducing CCTV in Clare to tackle illegal dumping has been branded "extremely frustrating". The Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 permits local authorities like Clare County Council to use technologies such as CCTV in a GDPR-compliant manner in order to combat illegal dumping and littering. Responding to Clarecastle Fine Gael Councillor Paul Murphy's most recent call for such technology to be brought into use in Clare however, the local authority says having surveyed a number of alleged "blackspots", it doesn't deem them to "meet the proportionality threshold which would warrant the use of CCTV". Councillor Murphy insists there are many areas where surveillance should undoubtedly be brought in due to the prevalence of litter there.