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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 5 Nov 2002

Vol. 556 No. 3

Written Answers. - Waste Management.

John Bruton

Ceist:

704 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if a local authority can approve a waste permit to a company that has been struck off by the Companies Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20575/02]

John Bruton

Ceist:

705 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an investigation being carried out by the European Commission into a private waste operation in Newtown Darver, County Louth; if his Department is co-operating fully with this investigation (details attached); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20576/02]

John Bruton

Ceist:

706 Mr. J. Bruton asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government if he will carry out an investigation into the way in which a company (details supplied) which was approved for grant assistance of more than ?100,000 for a composting project, received a grant payment of ?30,000 three months after it had been struck off the Company Register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20577/02]

I propose to take Questions Nos. 704 to 706, inclusive, together.

Article 5 of the Waste Management (Permit) Regulations, 1998 provides that a local authority may, on application being made to it in that behalf, grant a waste permit, or refuse to grant such a permit, in relation to the carrying on by the applicant of a specified activity at a facility. Where an applicant for a waste permit is a body corporate which is subsequently struck off the companies register, it is not evident that there is a basis for the grant or continuation of a permit in the name of that applicant.

The European Commission has registered a complaint concerning alleged waste activities in Newtown Darver/Readypenny, Dundalk, County Louth, and has requested information in relation to issues arising. My Department co-operates fully with the Commission in relation to any such complaints and is currently preparing a reply in this case. The circumstances in which the company referred to was approved for grant assistance under the Operational Programme for Environmental Services, 1994-1999, and subsequently received grant payments, have already been investigated by my Department. The position was fully outlined in documentation provided to the Deputy on 22 March 2002.

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