Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 189: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the total cost of remedial works in respect of illegal or unregulated landfill sites in each of the past five years to date in 2012; the likely cost in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6165/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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My Department has provided financial support for a number of waste enforcement initiatives related to illegal or unregulated landfill sites under a European Court of Justice ruling in case ECJ C494/01 in order to give effect to the Court judgment. This has included illegal sites which were unregulated at the time of the judgment, a number of local authority owned landfills which were operating at the time of the judgement in April 2005 without a waste licence (and which have since been regulated) and also areas where offset has been provided for habitat loss or where waste has or had to be removed, as well as unregulated end of life vehicle sites. The information requested in relation to the annual breakdown of the expenditure is being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible. Future costs will be dependent of the outcome of a number of tendering processes as work is progressed.