Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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241. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of litter fines issued by each local authority over the past three years; the number issued for each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25691/25]

Mark Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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242. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of litter fines issued by each local authority over the past three years where CCTV was used in evidence; the number issued for each year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25692/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 241 and 242 together.

Under the Litter Pollution Act, 1997, the primary responsibility for management and enforcement responses to litter pollution lies with local authorities. It is a matter for each local authority to determine the most appropriate public awareness, enforcement, and clean-up actions in relation to litter taking account of local circumstances and priorities.

As such my Department does not collate statistics on the number of fines issued by local authorities, or any information on the type of evidence used, in relation to specific litter offences. Questions in relation to the number of litter fines issued and amounts raised through the imposition of such fines in each local authority area should be directed to the relevant local authority concerned.