Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion
Mr. Alex Hurley:
I can take them. There are two aspects to fixed-penalty notices. Deputy Devlin is correct in that the penalty can be collected either by the agency or by the local authority, depending on the offence that is identified. For example, the litter offence will be changed. That would be local authority. Illegal dumping would again primarily be local authority but there is the provision that it could also be collected by the agency for different offences, for example, for principles of responsible investment offences.
Deputy Devlin also mentioned the data controller issue. There are data experts within local authorities. A local authorities would be working as the data controller in this instance as well. We are confident that they have the resources to do this.
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