Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the records to be held by persons or companies engaged in waste activities as required under section 18(3)(b) of the Waste Management Act 1996. [25204/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The purpose of Section 18 of the Waste Management Act 1996 is to ensure that the Minister, local authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency can obtain information necessary for the performance of their functions under the Act. It also provides for the exchange of specified information between local authorities and the Agency.Subsection (3) specifically requires the Minister to make regulations requiring

(a)a specified class or classes of person carrying on a specified class or classes of waste recovery or disposal activity, or

(b)a specified class or classes of holder or producer of a specified class or classes of waste,

to maintain specified records over a specified period and to furnish specified details to a local authority, the Agency or other specified person.

The records to be held by persons or companies is dependent upon the nature and scale of the waste activity that person or company is engaged in and in accordance with the Regulations made regulating that activity utilising the provisions of this Section of the Act.

For example, under the Waste Management (Facility Permit and Registration) Regulations 2007, S.I. 821 of 2007, as amended, a permit holder is required to compile and maintain specified records in a specified format for a period of not less than 7 years in relation to the activity to which the waste facility permit relates of:

the types and quantities of waste dealt with in the course of business,

the treatment, recovery or disposal activities to which the waste is subject, including the compilation of commercial documentation for all collected waste deposited at the facility, and

not later than the 28th day of February in each year, to furnish to the local authority an Annual Environmental Report containing summary information in relation to the preceding calendar year or part thereof.

A complete list of Statutory Instruments made under the provisions of the Waste Management Act, can be accessed from the electronic Irish Statute Book at: