Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Question 503: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding being allocated to composting facilities and the promotion thereof in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12918/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The capital grants scheme operated by my Department is in respect of recycling and recovery facilities in general and this encompasses a large range of projects. Initial applications for the current round of funding range from major biological treatment plants to small bring centres, including composting facilities, and are being reviewed at present. I expect to announce a further tranche of funding in the coming weeks.

Likewise, promotion of recycling-recovery facilities is not divided into individual streams and subvention of operating costs for bring centres and civic amenity sites relates to the level of cost and of cost recovery and not to the types of waste accepted.