Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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422. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding streams that exist for the development of new and existing civic amenity facilities; and the amount that has been spent on each in each of the past five years. [28668/18]

Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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423. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of civic amenity facilities (details supplied) here; and the location of each. [28669/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 422 and 423 together.

There is currently no exchequer funding available for the development of new and existing civic amenity sites.

Between 2000 and 2015, a total of approximately €210 million was provided to Local Authorities for the building and operation of bottle banks and civic amenity sites.  With declining resources in the Environment Fund to provide subventions to Local Authorities and conclusion of the EU-supported capital schemes, my Department’s support for local reuse and recycling has become more strategic in focus.  In addition to funding the establishment and operation of the three regional waste management planning offices to drive reuse and recycling in our communities at a cost of some €300,000 each year, I am also providing funding in 2018 towards the refurbishment of Local Authority bottle banks and bring centres.  This is a joint initiative of the regional waste management planning offices and Repak. The following table provides a breakdown of Local Authority supported civic amenity sites by county; the information was collated by my officials  in January 2018 and is the most recent information held by my Department.