Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)
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Question 13: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the threshold for an EIS on a transfer of waste for a recovery facility; when this threshold was established; and if he intends to review this threshold. [36653/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The threshold above which an environmental impact statement is required in connection with applications for licences for waste transfer stations is a waste intake of 25,000 tonnes per annum. This threshold was originally set in 1989 and there is no proposal to review it.