Barry Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 13: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government when he will be announcing his review of the provisions of the Environment Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2011 relating to the waste facility levy. [15599/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I stated in the course of the Second Stage debate on the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill on 14 April 2011 that I will announce my decision in respect of the waste facility levy provisions of the Bill on Committee Stage.

The Bill is a very important component of the national approach to waste and in the course of the Second Stage debate I outlined the guiding principles which will inform the waste policy development process, including the use of appropriate economic instruments. Those principles will serve to ensure that future waste policy will be designed to minimise the volumes of waste generated and to extract the maximum value from those wastes which do arise; be founded on a firm, evidence-based understanding of the many scientific, economic and social issues which are inherent elements of the waste policy discourse; and be designed to facilitate necessary investment in infrastructure, within an appropriately regulated waste market framework. The date for Committee Stage has not yet been set, but I expect that it will be taken in the next few weeks.