Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
121. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the engagement that he has had with Longford County Council regarding the urgent and necessary remedial works to be carried out on potentially contaminated lands and landfill sites. [40878/22]
View answerUnder the Waste Management Act, 1996 (amended) a statutory obligation is placed on local authorities to identify and risk-assess sites at which waste disposal activities were historically carried out in their respective areas and which may now present an environmental threat. A list of these sites was attached to the Regional Waste Management Plans 2015-2021 and is available on my Departments website at: www.gov.ie/en/publication/fde64-regional-waste-management-plans.
The roadmap for the landfill remediation programme is set out in the Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 which will be updated in the new National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy in 2022, to be published later this year.
Funding allocations under the programme are managed through a National Landfill Remediation Steering Group comprised of representatives from the Local Authorities and chaired by my Department. Funding applications for projects are submitted through this process which provided €55,000 to Longford County Council in 2022 for works on 3 landfill sites.
