Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Question:200. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the litter and waste budget for each local area authority in the past ten years, in tabular form. [10172/19]
View answerDáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 February 2019
200. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the litter and waste budget for each local area authority in the past ten years, in tabular form. [10172/19]
View answerThe information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department as the budget is a function of the local authority. The Local Government Act 2001, as amended by the Local Government Reform Act 2014, provides the legislative basis for the budget process. The budget is developed in a phased process involving input from the Chief Executive, the municipal district members and the Corporate Policy Group. The adoption of the budget is a reserved function of the local authority. Each local authority budget is prepared in the context of a corporate plan, with financial resources allocated to strategies supporting the objectives of the corporate plan for the forthcoming year.
Waste Management costs for local authorities may include landfill operation and aftercare, operation of recovery and recycling facilities, waste management planning, waste regulation, monitoring and enforcement, as well as litter management and street cleaning.
However, data in relation to litter expenditure by each Local Authority on street/road cleaning, litter warden services, and litter public awareness initiatives, for the years 2010 to 2016 is publically available on my Departments website at the following link:
https://dccae.gov.ie/en-ie/environment/topics/waste/litter/Pages/Local-Authority-Litter-Fines-and-Expenditure-Statistics.aspx.
Furthermore, the costs of waste enforcement are directly supported by my Department under the Local Authority Enforcement Measures Scheme. This scheme, which has been in place since 2004, facilitates local authorities to:
- carry out a verifiable programme of waste enforcement activity and associated work plan by each local authority;
- deal with national waste enforcement priorities; and
- send a strong signal to unauthorised waste operators or dumpers that a robust waste enforcement presence will continue to be maintained.
Below are details of the current waste enforcement grant allocation to each Local Authority under this scheme:
Local Authority |
Allocation € |
Local Authority Enforcement Measures Scheme |
|
Carlow County Council |
165,000 |
Cavan County Council |
278,000 |
Clare County Council |
403,000 |
Cork City Council |
180,700 |
Cork County Council |
455,000 |
Dublin City Council |
982,000 |
Donegal County Council |
202,000 |
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council |
480,000 |
Fingal County Council |
220,000 |
Galway County Council |
72,000 |
Galway City Council |
50,000 |
Kerry County Council |
68,000 |
Kildare County Council |
121,000 |
Kilkenny County Council |
153,000 |
Laois County Council |
164,000 |
Leitrim County Council |
74,000 |
Limerick City & County Council |
377,000 |
Longford County Council |
200,000 |
Louth County Council |
130,000 |
Mayo County Council |
156,000 |
Meath County Council |
259,000 |
Monaghan County Council |
219,000 |
Offaly County Council |
295,000 |
Roscommon County Council |
136,373 |
Sligo County Council |
176,000 |
South Dublin County Council |
130,000 |
Tipperary County Council |
211,000 |
Waterford County Council |
303,000 |
Westmeath County Council |
175,000 |
Wexford County Council |
236,885 |
Wicklow County Council |
360,000 |
Total Enforcement Grant: |
7,431,958 |