Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Strategic Plan: Bord na Móna

1:30 pm

Mr. Mike Quinn:

Our planning permission up to the end of this year is for 360,000 tonnes into the Drehid site. That returns to 120,000 tonnes in December. We got an intensification period of two years plus two years, which runs out this year. We will not be applying for an increase back up to 360,000 tonnes. The reason we got the 360,000 tonnes was because of the delay in Covanta.

In respect of the 120,000 tonnes, there is more than enough types of waste that need to be landfilled that will not compete with Covanta. For example, construction, demolition and wood waste will not go to Covanta and need to go somewhere. We will landfill waste stream types like that in Drehid so there is no real competition with Covanta in the landfill.

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