{"id":446186,"date":"2026-05-13T05:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:32:11","slug":"littering-dog-fouling-fines-to-rise-by-e100-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446186\/","title":{"rendered":"Littering, dog fouling fines to rise by \u20ac100 in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fines for littering and dog fouling will be increased by \u20ac100 from the beginning of September.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State for the Circular Economy Alan Dillon will announce today that these on-the-spot fines will rise from \u20ac150 to \u20ac250.<\/p>\n<p>The move is aimed at deterring littering and illegal dumping, and the minister will encourage local authorities to improve enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Dillon will also announce a \u20ac3 million investment in anti-dumping initiatives across all councils.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 projects will receive funding this year.<\/p>\n<p>This will fund local authorities to use CCTV monitoring along with supporting clean up operations and raising public awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, this work has led to the removal of more than 26,000 tonnes of waste nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fines for littering and dog fouling will be increased by \u20ac100 from the beginning of September. Minister of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-446186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}