Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Question 1855: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount raised by the plastic bag levy for each year since its commencement with a detailed description of the way these funds have been spent for each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1824/07]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Since the inception of the plastic bag levy, receipts remitted to my Department by the Revenue Commissioners amount to €69.7 million. Amounts raised by the plastic bag levy in respect of each year since its commencement are set out in the table.

A total of €194 million was spent to date from the Environment Fund on a wide range of activities, including in particular the following:

Waste Management Infrastructure and the subvention of Local Authority Recycling Operational Costs;

Environment Awareness, including the Race Against Waste campaign, and various litter initiatives;

the enhanced waste management enforcement initiatives currently being taken by local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE);

the National Waste Prevention and Market Development Programmes;

Research & Development in the Environmental Protection Agency; and

contributions to International Environment Funds.

Copies of the Environment Fund's Annual Accounts up to and including 2005 are available in the Oireachtas library.