Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 15 June 2021, the amount allocated to each local authority from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021. [37416/21]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Of the €5 million announced on 5 May 2021, €4 million has been directly allocated to local authorities under the Litter Infrastructure Support Grant Scheme as set out in the table below, in order to assist with the provision of new litter infrastructure, the replacement of existing litter infrastructure and the servicing of infrastructure in their functional areas. Under the scheme, at least 50% of the funds allocated to each local authority must be invested in infrastructure in order to ensure that the impact of the funding, while being of particular assistance during the peak summer season, will also provide longer term benefits.

The remaining €1m has been set aside to fund measures which are being delivered centrally including a national anti-litter and anti-dumping awareness campaign and a GIS mapping project which will aim to geo-tag bin locations across the country. It is noted that the centrally procured awareness assets will be made available to the local authorities to use in their own awareness raising activities.