Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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556. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether the regulations relating to end-of-life vehicles are fit for purpose and achieve best safety standards. [25570/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Regulations are designed specifically to transpose the EU End-of-Life Vehicles Directive 2000/53/EC. The Directive sets out measures to prevent and limit waste from end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) and their components and to ensure that, where possible, this is reused, recycled or recovered. It sets clear quantified targets for Member States for reuse, recycling and recovery of ELVs and their components. It also encourages producers to manufacture new vehicles without hazardous substances, thus promoting the reuse, recyclability and recoverability of waste vehicles.

The ELV Regulations are primarily concerned with ensuring that Ireland meets the reuse, recycling and recovery targets laid out in the Directive.  They put in place measures to ensure that producers of new or imported vehicles fulfil their obligations in relation to the end-of-life vehicles for which they are responsible and put in place a network of authorised treatment facilities to ensure that these vehicles are treated correctly.

The aims of EU ELV Directive, which are to reduce waste, to encourage reuse, and improve the environmental performance of the vehicle industry, do not address road safety issues, which are a matter for my colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport.