Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have one other item. It concerns subhead C6 and waste management and enforcement activities by local authorities. It has been on this committee's agenda already. We had Wexford County Council in here about Lady's Island Lake. I am querying whether there is any provision for funding for the recommendations this committee made in respect of getting that project under way to remediate the issues of waste around the lake.

More generally, we have heard recently that there has been industrial-scale illegal turf cutting across seven county council areas. A number of those councils came forward and said they did not have the budget to enforce against this happening. I am wondering whether the enforcement by local authorities has been taken into consideration. If it does not fall under this heading, where might it be allocated?