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:
I cannot recall the precise figure offhand, but the EPA's national waste database reports give an estimate of the number of households that are not subscribed to a collection service. I will come back to the Deputy with the precise figure. About 20% is the rough figure. That does not mean that 20% of households are throwing their rubbish on the side of the road, because people taking their refuse to-----