John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can expect that information as we go along.

I raised the same type of issue in respect of a different site with the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Mr. O'Mahony, when he attended the committee last week. It is alleged that of the 57,000 tonnes of waste taken out in the course of development work on the R158 from 2004 to 2008, 16,000 tonnes were dumped on a private site. I am trying to establish who in the local authority had responsibility for overseeing that project and who will take action, if such is necessary, against the contractor that allowed this to happen. Who will lead this saga to a point where there is a solution to the problem and an estimate of the costs involved in putting the lands back to the way they were prior to this happening? How did a contractor, if that is the case, get away with this type of dumping when the work was being carried out under the nose of the county council? The location of this particular site is at Laracor in County Meath, but I understand the same type of thing may have been done at other sites. Who undertakes to investigate such incidents? It is an issue that has been passed from one agency or Department to another with little interest being shown by the local authority in question in resolving the issues that relate to it.