A Waterford County Councillor has called on the Minister for the Environment and Local Government, Martin Cullen, to introduce an outright ban on chewing gum before 'our country is destroyed with it'.
Responding to a proposal by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council that additional taxes be imposed on chewing gum, Fianna Fáil Cllr Geoff Power called on Minister Cullen to go one step further.
'I welcome the proposal for extra tax but I think we should go a step further and see if we could ban the stuff completely. It is scandalous, our country is destroyed with it,' he said.
Cllr Power, who lives in the fishing village of Dunmore East, said the disposal of chewing gum is a national problem.
