Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Proposed Incinerator at Poolbeg: Dublin City Council (Resumed)

2:45 pm

Mr. Owen Keegan:

My colleagues may have something to say. A lot of waste is being moved around the State at the moment, much of it to various ports. There are significant transport costs at the moment. It is likely that much of this waste will be moved to a staging point, will be compacted and moved in bigger vehicles. We are talking about 120 vehicles a day. In the context of movement of goods vehicles or the capacity of the port tunnel, it is very small.