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:

The way leachate is dealt with is by taking it to a wastewater treatment plant where it is processed. From a cost and value for money point of view, the ideal way to deal with that would be to have it taken to the closest wastewater treatment plant, which invariably would be north of the Border. The Northern Ireland authorities have indicated that they have capacity problems in the wastewater treatment network there, so it is now being transported to-----

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