Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 357: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the incentives given to local authorities to help them in their work of encouraging householders to use the household food waste recycling so they would not have to charge a fee of householders for a product that can be readily changed to garden compost and sold on the open market for extra funds for the local authorities. [19751/09]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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Since 2002, almost €10 million has been received by local authorities in respect of capital grants for the provision of composting facilities. In July 2008 I established a new grants scheme, the Waste Recycling Capital Grants Scheme, under which grant assistance at the rate of up to 85% of eligible costs is available for projects designed to increase the biological treatment of biowaste.

My Department also supplies an annual subvention towards the operational costs associated with running recycling facilities, including composting facilities. In 2009, I am making available €12 million from the Environment Fund for this purpose.