Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy as it relates to the Waste Sector: Discussion.

11:00 am

Ms Julie Flood:

I am wearing two hats here today. One is as senior vice president of Fórsa and the other as a proud employee of Dublin City Council. Councillor Doolan mentioned the costing supplied by RTÉ, as opposed to the local authorities, around the physical removal and the cost of lifting the illegal dumping. There have been additional costs here around education, awareness, enforcement and diversionary activities that are supplied by local authorities. We will not get that full costing. We may get the cost of lifting the waste but there is a range of additional costs included in that as well.