Section 52 of the Waste Management Act 1996 requires that the consent of the relevant local authority is obtained prior to any sanction being granted to discharge leachate from landfill to sewers. In addition, section 40(4) of that Act prohibits the granting of a Waste Licence unless, inter alia, “any emissions from the recovery or disposal activity in question (“the activity concerned”) will not result in the contravention of any relevant standard, including any standard for an environmental medium, or any relevant emission limit value, prescribed under any other enactment.” The conditions applying to a waste licence and the enforcement of such conditions are matters for the Environmental Protection Agency. Under section 60(3) of the Waste Management Act 1996 the Minister is precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to the performance, in particular circumstances, of a function conferred on the Agency by or under the Act.