John Paul O'Shea (Cork North-West, Fine Gael)
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317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the study being undertaken by his Department with the National Waste Collection Permit Office on incentivised charging structures in the waste collection market (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20933/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The waste collection market is serviced by competing private companies where prices charged are matters between those companies and their customers subject to compliance with all applicable legislation, including contract, consumer and competition legislation. As Minister, I have no power to set prices in a private competitive market.

The study the Deputy refers to, on incentivised charging structures in the waste collection market, has been commissioned by the National Waste Collection Permit Office (NWCPO) to inform future policy development in this area. The study will also consider mechanisms for supports in relation to households disposing of medical incontinence products based on international practice.

I am advised that work on the study is ongoing. Stakeholder interviews and literature reviews have been conducted and a broad range of surveys of householders, commercial customers and waste collection companies have now been completed. I understand the NWCPO continue to engage with the consultants in analysing and interrogating the data gathered with a view to completing the study in due course.