Trevor Sargent
Question:116 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment if EU funding will be made available for the proposed dump at Kill, County Kildare, if it obtains planning permission.
Written Answers. - Waste Management Programme.
Trevor Sargent
Question:117 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for the Environment if EU funding will be sought to provide a reduction/reuse/recycling/composting system of waste management in Ireland, in keeping with EU policy and directives on waste.
Wexford): I propose to take Questions Nos. 116 and 117 together.
Provision is being made within the environmental services operational programme of theNational Development Plan 1994-1999 for a sub-programme on solid waste. This will deal with the improvement of waste management systems and infrastructure. EU co-financing is being negotiated in this regard for improving recycling infrastructure, for the development of waste management strategies at county or regional level and for the provision of hazardous waste infrastructure.
It is not envisaged, within the resources available, that this solid waste sub-programme will extend to the development of landfill facilities, as was the case in relation to two individual projects — in Kerry and Dublin — under the Interim Cohesion Fund arrangements in 1993-1994.