Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 13 November 2014
228. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a waste licence, permit or certificate will allow a waste processing operator to continue operations where the exemption planning permission that was relied upon to operate the waste processing on the site was overturned by An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43610/14]
View answer229. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a waste licence, permit or certificate held by a waste processing operator provides for a third-party waste collector to continue to deliver waste to the site where an exemption planning permission for waste delivery to the site was overturned by An Bord Pleanála; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43611/14]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 228 and 229 together.
It is a matter for local authorities to set and attach specific conditions to a waste facility permit, or certificate of registration and for the Environmental Protection Agency to set and attach such conditions as may be necessary in relation to a waste licence. Enforcement action against illegal waste activity is a matter for the local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I have no function in relation either to the setting of operating conditions or their enforcement.
