Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source

Is the Minister recommending that some type of wage rate be set in the waste industry? I note from the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, that although waste management facilities only account for 15% of licences, they account for over 50% of the EPA investigations. That is a lot of investigations by the EPA for a small cohort of businesses.

Did anything particular in that respect come to the Minster of State's attention or that of the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly? There was grave concern over those areas in September when this investigation was initially mooted. Is the Department talking about bringing in a wage rate for the waste industry in general?

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