Dessie Ellis (Dublin North West, Sinn Fein)
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782. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of illegal dumping in the State in 2012. [34840/13]

Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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816. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost of illegal dumping here in 2012. [35275/13]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 782 and 816 together.

Enforcement action in relation to illegal dumping is a matter for the relevant local authority concerned and also the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE), which supervises the environmental protection activities of local authorities. The cost of illegal dumping for 2012 is not collated by my Department as it includes local authority enforcement, disposal and legal costs and also involves costs for other State agencies such as An Garda Síochána.

My Department, however, provides funding to support waste enforcement activity. In 2012, provision of €10,360,278 was made to support the work of a network of local authority enforcement officers, while €2,100,000 was provided to support the work of the OEE.