Mr. Mark Griffin:

The environment fund is set up on a statutory basis. It sets out the types of things for which the money accruing to the fund can be used.

There are schemes to prevent and reduce waste and schemes for waste recovery activities and research into waste management. There is a range of them. The environment fund is used for measures such as the anti-dumping initiative, which has been hugely effective in counties throughout the State in recent years since we introduced it. The fund supports measures such as the protecting uplands and rural environments project in the Wicklow mountains, which has been hugely successful and is a model we would like to see replicated more widely. It also provides support to environmental NGOs in the form of funding. There is a long list, which I will get and email to the Deputy, on where the moneys were disbursed in 2019.