Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his personal commitment in this area. The legislation is welcome, as he said, and it has the necessary safeguards, but the key is rolling out the codes of practice. While I welcome the commitments, we should try to see that the LGMA gets the codes to the Minister for approval and that, from 2023, local authorities will be in a position to adopt them. By the spring, no local authority should have an excuse that it has not got the necessary general data protection regulation compliance codes in place to roll out the technologies.

I welcome the anti-dumping initiative funding. It may be a case of providing some of the CCTV equipment. If local authorities come produce a proposal, I hope the Government will look favourably on it. However, we have got to ensure that 2023 will be the year in which we really tackle the scourge of illegal dumping.