Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes

9:30 am

Mr. Philip Nugent:

A lot is happening at the moment. In terms of waste collection, there is an obligation on all commercial contracts to include full segregation. That has been in place since July of this year. It was not an obligation up until then. We know that there was about a 70% contamination rate prior to the introduction of the requirement----