Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Ms Laura Burke:

I will go through that with the Deputy. I will first comment on landfill in general because it would be bad to not mention this point. Regarding where we have come to in Ireland, about 90% of our municipal waste was going into landfills in 2000 but that has reduced to 26% in 2018. There has been significant progress regarding dependence on landfill and local dumps or unlined landfills. That is the history. On east Galway-----