Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 245: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the amount of funding available to South Dublin County Council for recycling facilities in the Lucan, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas for each of the years 200 to 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22087/06]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested is not available in my Department in the form requested.

South Dublin County Council together with the three other Dublin local authorities forms a waste management planning region, for which Dublin City Council is the lead authority. Dublin City Council has acquired a premises in the South Dublin administrative area intended for use as a materials recovery facility. Some €6.4 million in grant assistance was provided by my Department towards the acquisition of this facility in 2004, and late last year I approved in principle a further €10 million in grant assistance towards the fit out and engineering works required to bring the facility into operation. Subject to the appropriate planning and licensing processes, it is expected that this facility when completed will be one of the largest of its kind in Europe and will have the capacity to deal with the commingled dry recyclables collected throughout the Dublin region.

In addition, in November 2002 South Dublin County Council was allocated €48,000 in grant assistance towards the provision of 13 bring centres.

A subvention in relation to the operational costs of local authority bring centres and civic amenity sites has been provided since 2003. In the case of South Dublin County Council the subvention provided has been €294,850 in 2003, €255,400 in 2004 and €277,680 in 2005. Further such funding will again be available later this year.