Written answers
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Illegal Dumping
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the implementation of the LGMA guidelines on the use of CCTV to tackle illegal dumping and litter. [7022/24]
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Codes of Practice were formally approved on the 14th December 2023 by my colleague Ossian Smyth TD, Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Climate & Communications.
The relevant sections of the Circular Economy and Miscellaneous Provisions Act allowing for the use of CCTV under the Waste Management Act and Litter Pollution Act and the use of other Mobile Recording Devices under the Waste Management Act were commenced from the 15th February.
It is therefore now open to any local authority to begin the process of putting the required procedures in place to allow for the use of such technologies to combat littering and illegal dumping, subject to adherence with the relevant Code of Practice.
The approved Codes of Practice are available at Codes of Practice for CCTV & MRD - Gov.ie
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