Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----in order that less waste will go into landfill sites.

There has been a series of crises with landfill site capacity during my term as Minister as well as during the terms of Deputies Simon Coveney and Alan Kelly. We have been working on the relevant issues with the three waste management planning offices in order to address the crises as they have arisen. That is part of the problem.

Concerning the Deputy's question, the Drehid landfill site will open on 1 January and will take waste from that time. There is no issue in that regard. It will have a licensed capacity of 360,000 tonnes in 2017. A landfill site in New Inn in County Galway that had gone into receivership-----

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