Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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525. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the establishment of regulation for the household waste collection market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53213/18]

John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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530. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions arising from a study that have been progressed in view of the study by the CCPC into the household waste collection market and its report on 28 September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53335/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 525 and 530 together.

The recent Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) report recommended that existing national waste management policy, as set out in 'AResource Opportunity - Waste Management Policy in Ireland', should be reviewed. This review process will be initiated in 2019 and will take account of a number of initiatives, such as the European circular economy waste and plastics legislation frameworks and the reports from the CCPC and the Price Monitoring Group. This process will inform the development of future national waste management policy, including our environmental goals, regulatory and market structures, and policy instruments and tools.