Heather Humphreys says competition judges advised not to let posters impact scores once time limits to remove them are adhered to
Minister for Rural and Community Development Heather Humphreys warned that cable ties as well as posters must be promptly removed after the local and European elections. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
She said that if posters are up “within the allowed time frame”, set out in the 1997 Litter Act, “my department has advised the panel of adjudicators that it should not impact on any Tidy Towns scoring”. She said that before the competition opens each year officials from her department meet competition sponsor SuperValu and the “highly skilled and competent panel of adjudicators”. The department’s role is to facilitate the administration of this adjudication process only but it is “not active in the formal adjudication of competition entries”.
Mr Sherlock, who is based in Mallow, said “this will give comfort to Tidy Towns committees particularly where there are voluntary codes or arrangements where poster bans exist in certain towns like my own”.“Personally I wouldn’t lose any sleep if a poster was never put up.
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