Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 27 January 2005
211 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the local authorities which have full, partial or no recycling facility available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2178/05]
View answerAll local authorities have made recycling facilities available. While my Department does not compile comprehensive statistics on the recycling facilities provided in each local authority area, regular returns are submitted by local authorities seeking to avail of subvention of operating costs of recycling facilities. The most recent returns submitted, in respect of the first six months of 2004, revealed a total of 1,780 bring bank sites in the relevant 34 local authority areas, where varying materials are accepted, particularly glass, aluminium cans, paper and textiles. There were also 57 civic amenity sites in 30 local authority areas. The four local authorities which did not have operational civic amenity sites in the first half of 2004 were Galway city, which has a three-bin kerbside collection; Leitrim, which has two civic amenity sites coming on stream at Manorhamilton and Carrick-on-Shannon; Sligo, which is developing a civic amenity site at Tubbercurry; and Longford, which has received assistance towards the provision of mobile collections in lieu of permanent civic amenity sites. Significant capital grant assistance has been made available to local authorities towards the provision of recycling and recovery infrastructure, and both further capital funding and financial support towards the current operating costs are being provided on an ongoing basis.
