Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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394. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm whether any public funds, including infrastructure allocations under the national development plan, have been committed to projects at Murphy’s Rock, Cork, a site subject to an unresolved European Union enforcement order requiring remediation of illegal dumping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49240/25]

Ken O'Flynn (Cork North-Central, Independent Ireland Party)
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395. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that future allocations of public funds or infrastructure supports will be conditional on compliance with outstanding European Union enforcement orders, including the case of Murphy’s Rock, Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49244/25]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 394 and 395 together.

As part of the budgetary process each year, my Department sets overall expenditure ceilings for each Ministerial Vote Group. These are laid out at Vote level in the Budget day Expenditure Report published in October with further detail provided in the Revised Estimates for Public Services published in December.

Following the allocation of Ministerial Expenditure Ceilings, it is a matter for each Minister to assign funding as appropriate at programme and subhead level for their Departments and the agencies under their remit taking into account the demands for services.

I do not hold the primary Ministerial responsibility for the remediation of illegal dumping and I am therefore unable to provide the deputy with the information he has requested.

It is usually a matter for the Government Department under whose aegis this responsibility falls to respond to such enquiries. My Ministerial colleague, Darragh O'Brien, Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment, would be able to provide more information on work within his agencies to improve environmental enforcement and compliance with our environmental legislation.