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

-----a private site. The Department states it has not spent any money on private sites. Parking the Kerdiffstown site, there are 61 public ones. When local authorities had an involvement in waste management, that was included in the costs when there were charges. There is not separate income to deal with the public sites, which, I presume, are all owned by local authorities. Do we know what is expended? Can we ask the Department what it has spent or is it spending on the public sites? It could be a sizeable amount of money. When one looks at that happened in the case of Kerdiffstown when something goes badly wrong, in fact, the Department could be saving money by virtue of the fact that it is spending money.

The waste management area is problematic and it will become more problematic in that we will have only two landfill sites in the country in the near future. One of those happens to be in my constituency and I am aware of that. I would like to know what is being spent. If they have not spent it on private ones, what has been spent on public ones and why does Kerdiffstown not feature?