Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste

10:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

Absolutely - an approved landfill. It is an approved landfill south of the Border because of capacity issues north of the Border. For the remaining five sites, we will have to deal with around 100,000 tonnes of waste. All told, between what is done, what is under way and what is left, we are talking about 200,000 tonnes. While the previous estimate of the possible overall cost was as high as €30 million, our sense now is that it will be lower than €20 million. That is due to two factors. In some of the sites there was not quite as much waste as was feared, but obviously the other initiatives we have taken, on foot of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, in terms of procuring for services and so on have generated savings as well.

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