John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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496. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent in 2017 and to date in 2018 on illegal dumping and fly tipping by each of the four local authorities in Dublin, in tabular form. [3344/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The cost of illegal dumping 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 role, as Minister, is to provide the legislative and policy framework under which both local authority and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforcement action against illegal dumping is initiated. Enforcement action against illegal waste activity is a matter for the local authorities and the Office of Environmental Enforcement (OEE) of the EPA as appropriate. My Department provides annual funding to support the activities of a network of local authority waste enforcement officers. In this regard, the enforcement grant allocations made to the four local authorities in Dublin in 2017 are detailed in the following table.

In recognition of the impact of illegal dumping on communities across the country, I launched an anti-dumping initiative in 2017 to provide funding for projects tackling illegal dumping including the provision of support for the clean-up, monitoring and surveillance of dumping black-spots. These funds have been used to support 229 clean-up and restorative projects led by community, environmental and sporting groups across the country.  The 2017 anti-dumping initiative allocations made to each of the four local authorities in Dublin are detailed in the following table.