Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the tonnage of waste exported for disposal for each of the past five years; the destinations of this waste and the port from which it left Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29331/16]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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Statistics and information on shipments of waste to and from Ireland, including ports used, are not kept by my Department. Such information is available from the National Transfrontier Shipments Office (NTFSO), which compiles an annual register for movement of both Amber and Green list waste. Amber list waste refers to hazardous waste. All Amber listed waste destined for recovery, and all shipments of Amber listed waste destined for disposal, are subject to prior notification and consent procedures in accordance with Articles 3 and 4 of EU Regulation 1013/2006. Green listed waste refers to shipments of non-hazardous waste for recovery within and from the EU.

The latest registers compiled by the NTFSO deal with 2015 and are available at . Information can also be obtained on historical shipments from the National Waste Reports published by the Environmental Protection Agency and which are available on its website at www.epa.ie.