Ms Geraldine Tallon:

The landfill legacy is a very vexed question. We have significant costs for remediation of closed landfills and significant costs associated with dumping, particularly in the Wicklow-Carlow area. In particular, we have significant costs associated with a difficult site such as Kerdiffstown in Kildare, where the EPA is dealing with landfill legacy problems of a very serious nature. We also have difficulties associated with cross-Border movement of waste and illegal dumping of waste in Northern Ireland, for which we are now responsible. This issue of mending our hand in regard to our landfill legacy is an increasing burden on the decreasing resources of the environment fund. With regard to our costs, in 2013 we have €12 million in our Vote for landfill remediation. Mr. Mulhall may be able to give a broader figure on the costs associated with the various elements of the legacy.