Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste

10:00 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

The availability of landfill space has gone down, but the quantum of waste that has been diverted from landfill has increased. Waste for recovery is going abroad. That is waste that might previously have gone into landfill.