Joe Carey (Clare, Fine Gael)
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57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the lead Department in fulfilling the commitment in the programme for Government to invest in infrastructure, including broadband and waste. [16232/20]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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As Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, my role with regard to waste management is to provide a comprehensive legislative and waste policy framework through which the relevant environmental regulatory bodies, including local authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency, operate.

In this context I will soon be bringing forward an ambitious new waste policy which will include a range of measures to reform and strengthen how we manage our waste with a greater focus on prevention through product design and consumer choice.

I also have responsibility for telecommunications policy and for delivery of the National Broadband Plan. Regulation of the telecommunications sector is a matter for ComReg, the independent telecommunications regulator; corporate governance of ComReg comes within the remit of my Department.