Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 April 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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With whatever is available or not available as the case may be.

We touched on recycling and Ms Burke said the amount of waste going to landfill is decreasing but much of it is being managed by heat recovery or, to use the old-fashioned word, incinerator or waste heat recovery biomass. Does the EPA have a role in terms of all the new applications that are submitted? If, say, Bord na Móna is proposing a new large biomass plant, is the EPA consulted on those issues in terms of a licence?