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:
That is a considerable achievement compared to where we were ten years ago, but in reality, much of the stuff for recovery is going abroad. We are not clapping ourselves on the back without justification for household practices. Waste is being segregated and it is providing a waste stream, but the problem is that the waste stream, to a significant extent, is ending up in other countries, and they are getting the benefit of the energy recovered from it. That is something that we will-----
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