DUBLIN Corporation is to spend an extra £1.2 million on deploying 200 additional street-cleaners over the summer months.
The initiative has resulted from what a corporation spokesman described as the city's "unprecedented growth in tourist numbers and retail activity now extending over seven days.
A Corporation statement announced that the extra funding would "effectively overcome the very critical problems encountered in recent, years during the summer period".
Mr Joe Scully, chief planning officer with the corporation, said that the extended cleaning operation would also include suburban areas.
The extra money will be mainly used to fund a full-time cleaning service in Dublin city-centre. "This is an entirely new service to the public and will provide a degree of much-needed flexibility to the street-cleaning service", the corporation spokesman said.
A "Litter Management Plan" is at present being drawn up by the corporation.
It is estimated that about 30kg of litter is produced by each citizen of Dublin every year. Councillors have described fast-food outlets as the "chief culprits".
Additional litter wardens will also be deployed in the city during the summer months.