Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On environmental waste, I was a county councillor perhaps for 20 years. All local authorities had landfill sites, or dumps, as we used to call them. How safe are the landfill sites that were previously available in every county? At one time almost every municipal area had them. Are they being monitored years after being filled in? What security is provided to ensure there is no contamination from them if they were not done to perfection? They exist because we did not know enough about the environment at the time and in many cases local authorities were not up to scratch.