Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Role and Functions: Environmental Protection Agency

3:15 pm

Ms Laura Burke:

They are being met. The budget of the EPA, as I said in my opening statement, is €59.5 million. The vast majority of that is spent on staff, because we employed 323 pre-August 2014 and now employ 360 after the merger. Another €8 million is spent on funding research. We also have €2 million for the environment fund for the office of environmental enforcement. Approximately €2 million is allocated for our national waste prevention programme, to which I also referred in my opening statement. The largest proportion of our budget is on staff and on overheads, for example, on things like IT systems to facilitate more efficient operation. In the context of public sector reform, we try to ensure as much of our work as possible is done electronically, including electronic engagement with our licensees and others. IT development is a key part of our work in that regard.

I might ask Mr. O'Leary to talk about Enva-----

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