Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017
9:00 am
Ms Laura Burke:
They are cost recovery. We do it in different ways for different companies. In terms of the figures, for the enforcement charges, we are up at around 95% to 96% for cost recovery. The Deputy can imagine that particularly with enforcement, issues can arise where there is unanticipated work at a site during the year. With regard to licensing charges, these are the fees for applications coming into the agency, the cost recovery is a lot lower. It is probably around 10% to 15%. Those are charges for applications that were set back in 1993 and 1996 and they have not been increased since then, and so the cost recovery is much lower.
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