Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Illegal Dumping: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Seamus Neely:

Deputy Stanley asked a question about the mounds. I was appalled like others when watching the programme. I was not surprised when I saw a couple of the sites mentioned because I was aware of them. However, I was not aware of those mounds. It was a very strong signal to me that there was something terribly wrong on that site. Those mounds have all been levelled and excavated under the direction of the local authority in the last week or ten days. They were all under 2 m in height and all of them, bar one, contained little or no material other than shale, rock and soil. The one that had materials in it was the one featured on the programme.