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:

This is an enforcement issue associated with suggestions of illegal dumping. We are constrained, legally, in terms of getting involved in individual cases, be they in waste management, planning or other areas. That statutory prohibition has been in place for a long time and for good reason. My understanding is that this issue was raised previously and that the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport was following up on it with the committee. I am happy to follow it up with my counterpart in that Department to find out the current status of the issue.