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Under the bidding process, it will be open to any shipping operator to apply for all 26 or—as it will be—27 routes. Operators cannot apply for individual routes.
There is also no requirement to consult the local community.By April, when operations ceased for the summer, some 20,000 tonnes of sludge had been dumped on the site. We have no idea what the short-term or long-term effects of the dumping will be.
If parents have a dispute with a local authority official, no other local authority official will support the parents for fear of falling out with the local authority.
That is another option, but it all comes back to the same principle: the system should be graduated and based on ability to pay, either through the rates or based on the site. It is for the Executive to come up with the detail.