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Waste Management

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 28 February 2019

Thursday, 28 February 2019

Ceisteanna (200)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh

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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]

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The 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

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