Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role that local authorities will take in the regulation of the domestic waste collection industry. [46070/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Local authorities are already significantly involved in the regulation of the domestic waste collection industry, particularly through their role in deciding on applications for waste collection permits from service providers and in the enforcement of permits granted. In July 2012 I published A Resource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland. This new waste policy statement sets out a rang e of measures which will significantly revise the current regulatory regime to ensure, inter alia, that waste collected is managed in accordance with the waste hierarchy, that mandated service levels are delivered and that Customer Charters are put in place by all waste collection providers. The work of developing new regulatory structures to give effect to these measures has commenced and my Department has begun engaging with a range of key stakeholders in relation to the detailed design of the new system, in which local authorities will play an important role. It is my intention that the revised regulatory regime will deliver both enhanced environmental performance and a quality service for consumers.