Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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164. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the Landfill Remediation Programme since its establishment in 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/22]

Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party)
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Since 2006 the landfill remediation programme has provided approximately €190m funding to risk assess and remediate 150 landfill sites. This includes €52m for the former ISPAT site at Haulbowline, Co. Cork.  To date remediation work has been completed on 46 sites. In 2021 funding was provided for 72 sites across 22 local authorities with expenditure of just under €21m. This year 135 projects have been approved for funding across 29 local authorities with a budget of €26m.

The roadmap for the landfill remediation programme is set out in the Regional Waste Management Plan 2015-2021 with the renewed roadmap to be published later this year in the new National Waste Management Plan for a Circular Economy in 2022. The programme has been a key component of Ireland's response to the judgment of the European Court of Justice in case C494/01.

The Comptroller and Auditor General published a chapter on the programme in the 2019 Appropriation Account- this can be accessed at the following link www.audit.gov.ie/en/find-report/publications/2020/vote-29-communications-climate-action-and-environment.pdf