Illegal Dumping
Dail Éireann — 2024-03-07
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Noel Grealish (IND), Galway West

I have raised several times in the House the issue of illegal dumping and the need for local authorities to be allowed to use CCTV footage to help to prosecute offenders in the courts. It has taken a long time but, finally, councils are to be legally permitted to use this and similar technologies in their efforts to clamp down on this scourge, which is destroying the countryside and towns. Unless councils are given extra resources to use and monitor these technologies, however, it will have been a toothless exercise. Will the Minister commit to allocating extra funding to each local authority to enable them to launch campaigns against illegal duping? It is the scourge of the countryside, towns and villages and, unfortunately, neither the councils nor the Garda Síochána have the resources to set up checkpoints to catch the people carrying out illegal dumping. I drove through a particular part of the country on my way home from Dublin last week. The amount of rubbish dumped on the side of the road was scandalous. We have to catch these people and stop illegal dumping.

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Sitting date: 2024-03-07