Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The one Mr. Griffin referred to earlier, Kerdiffstown, was in private ownership and it was a waste mountain. Kildare is not known for mountains. It is a very flat county. This mountain started to grow and grow. There were ongoing complaints about it for years and then it went on fire and cost about €40 million. Mr. Griffin might correct that number. There was a very expensive remediation effort over several years as a consequence of not properly monitoring or regulating and all the rest of it. On those types of legacy sites that are not public sector landfills, particularly the ones that are high risk, what is the prospect of pursuing the original owners for the costs if they have to be remediated by the State? What has been spent on legal issues so far on that?

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