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
Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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However, the cost associated with maintaining landfills, as well as remediating and staffing them, has not gone down.
If anything, it has increased with the increase in regulations. A decision was taken to put this material into a dump in Monaghan without a cost. After the cost was examined, it was decreased by 50%.