In theory it is a great idea. Ideally, the obligation would be put on the companies, but they would pass the charge on anyway. They are an amazing money earner for the government, and it completely undermines MUP where applicable. Bin scavenging is a problem - all over (not just Dublin).

Hopefully it will be done properly. In Ireland you already pay for the recycling, then you have to pay to get your money back for the cans and bottles, and the machines are terrible compared to the Norwegian ones for example. In the Irish machines you have to carry a black sack of cans and queue for the machines to get your money back (queues can be 10 minutes), the machines are constantly full and you have to wait for a member of staff from the shop to come out and empty it so that it can be used again (which can take much longer depending on the store). Once you get to the machine itself you have to carefully put the cans and bottles in one by one. Often the machine doesn’t read them properly and spits them back out, or just won’t accept them anyway. The won’t accept bottles or cans from other stores own brands even though they are being crushed, and there are no wipes or water taps of any description to clean up after sticking your arm down a bag of dribbled leftovers of about 30-40 cans for 5 minutes, and your arm is stinking of beer or sweet drinks and hand is sticky.

TL;DR

PRAY that the Scandinavian (and other countries) model is the one that arrives, and not the gammy one by one model that causes queues, jams and gets full all the time.