Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Question 93: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the criteria that must be satisfied for an organisation to receive an exemption of paying the landfill levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25165/11]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The Waste Management (Landfill Levy) Regulations 2011 provide for exemptions from the landfill levy for the disposal, to an authorised landfill facility, of certain types of wastes. The Regulations do not provide for exemptions from the landfill levy for particular organisations.

The following types of waste are exempt from the levy under Regulation 6(1) of the 2011 Regulations, providing they are disposed of at an authorised landfill facility:

(a ) non-hazardous waste from construction and demolition activity, comprising concrete, bricks, tiles, road planings or other such similar materials, with a particle size of 150mm or less, which is used for landfill site engineering, restoration or remediation purposes;

(b ) excavation spoil comprising clay, sand, gravel or stone, which is used for landfill site engineering, restoration or remediation purposes;

(c ) stabilised waste arising from the composting of the biodegradable fraction of municipal waste, to which fraction sewage sludge may have been added;

(d ) waste arising from street cleaning activities carried on by or on behalf of a local authority;

(e ) waste which has been deposited elsewhere without appropriate authorisation and is subsequently removed by or on behalf of a local authority or the EPA for disposal, for the purpose of preventing environmental pollution (but not including waste which has been deposited elsewhere without appropriate authorisation and is subsequently required to be removed for disposal by a person at the direction of a local authority or the EPA);

(f ) waste arising from local clean-up activities carried on by community or environmental groups, where such activity is approved in advance by the relevant local authority for the purposes of exemption of such waste arising from the levy;

(g ) residues from filtration during the extrusion of recycled polymeric material;

(h ) non-metalic residues arising from the shredding of end-of-life vehicles, white goods and other metal waste;

(i ) waste arising from a process which meets the energy efficiency threshold specified in paragraph R1 of the Fourth Schedule to the Act; and

(j ) dredge spoil from inland waterways and harbours.

The following types of waste are also exempt from the levy under Regulation 6(2) of the 2011 Regulations:

(a ) the disposal of waste in a landfill facility, where such a facility is connected or associated with an activity specified in the First Schedule of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 and 2003 and is subject to a licence or revised licence granted by the EPA under section 83 of the Environmental Protection Agency Acts 1992 and 2003; and

(b ) the deposition in a quarry of natural material arising from the excavation of that quarry, where such material is in a chemically unaltered state.