Vol. 407 No. 9
57 Proinsias De Rossa asked the Minister for the Environment the plans which exist or which are proposed for the land-based disposal of wastes which are currently dumped at sea and for which disposal at sea must end by the end of 1995.
The environment action programme announced the Government's decision to ban all dumping at sea of industrial wastes from 31 December 1995. As stated by the Minister of State at the Department of the Marine in reply to Question No. 13 of 21 March 1991, the three Irish based companies currently authorised to keep industrial waste at sea are preparing to switch to land-based disposal at an early date within the above time frame.
