Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 November 2022
108. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will provide an update on the disbursement of grant funding for the remediation of environmentally-degraded landfill sites operated by local authorities under programme E; the success of these efforts to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54358/22]
View answerSince 2006 the landfill remediation programme has provided approximately €190m funding to risk assess and remediate 150 landfill sites. This includes €52m for the former ISPAT site at Haulbowline, Co. Cork.
To date remediation work has been completed on 46 sites. In 2021 funding was provided for 72 sites across 22 local authorities with expenditure of just under €21m. This year 135 projects have been approved for funding across 29 local authorities with a budget of €26m.
The roadmap for the landfill remediation programme is set out in the Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 with the renewed roadmap to be published in early 2023 in the new National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy. The programme has been a key component of Ireland's response to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in case C494/01.
