John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 508: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the funding being allocated for recycling in 2005. [14333/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I intend to allocate some €5 million from the environment fund this year towards the operating costs to local authorities of bring centres and civic amenity sites. I also intend in the coming weeks to make a further round of grant allocations towards the capital costs of recycling and recovery facilities. My decision on the scale of the latter allocations will depend on a number of factors, including the nature of proposals received, the lead-in time for project development, the need to realise our NDP-ERDF commitments, and the other competing priorities drawing on the environment fund.